fcfROpF\ STUDY OF 

MANKIND is MAN 


EX LIBR/S 
VINCENT -KENNEDY. 


EX l&gt; 
NCEN 


Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 

By THOMAS S. LINSCOTT, 
in the office of the Minister of Agriculture 


LORD STANLEY, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OK CANADA. 

Right Honorable Frederick Arthur Stanley, Baron Stanley of Preston, G.C.U., horn 1841. 

Appointed Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada 

May 1st, 1888. 


THE 


CANADIAN ALBUM. 


MEN OF CANADA; 


OR, 


SUCCESS BY EXAMPLE, 


IN 


RELIGION, PATRIOTISM, BUSINESS, LAW, MEDICINE, 
EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE-, 

CONTAINING PORTRAITS OF SOME OF CANADA S CHIEF BUSINESS MEN, STATESMEN. FARMERS, MEN OF THE 

LEARNED PROFESSIONS, AND OTHERS. ALSO. AN AUTHENTIC 

SKETCH OF THEIR LIVES. 


OBJECT LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT GENERATION AND 
EXAMPLES TO POSTERITY. 


KDITED BY 


REV. WM. COCHRANE, D.D., 


AUTHOR OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT, OR DOES DEATH END PROBATION," "THE CHURCH AND THK COMMONWEALTH. 

ETC., ETC. 


THE PROPER STUDY OF MAXKIXD IS JLL\~. 


VOL. I. 


BRADLEY, GARRETSON & CO., 

BRAXTFORD, ONTARIO, 

1891. 


INTRODUCTION. 


^T*HE plan of this work is unique and the conception original. There are biographies 
JL in abundance, but this appears to be the only Album on a national scale in this or any 
other country- Its title, THE CANADIAN ALBUM : MEN OF CANADA, is suggestive of its 
plan and scope, but it might well have been called "The Canadian Biographical Album," 
for this it really is. The usefulness and desirability of such a work can be readily seen. 
By that large class of persons spoken of as "the public," it should be highly appreciated. 
On every hand it is felt that the sources of information concerning THE MEN OF CANADA 
are very limited. Those who are rightly classed among the leaders of thought and action 
in the towns, cities, townships, and counties of Canada, as well as in the provinces, and in 
the Dominion itself, are not so well known as is desirable or necessary-. How often one s 
mind seeks information concerning an individual who has suddenly become conspicuous 
in church or state ? Who is he ? Where did he come from ? How old is he ? What are 
his antecedents? His age? His business or professional education? His past attainments 
and present standing? And, finally, his personal appearance? 

This work proposes to answer these questions briefly, but accurately, in sober prose, 
and in cold type, like any other condensed biography. But it does not end here by any 
means. It brings to its aid the poetry of the artist, with the skill of the engraver, thus 
transferring the very image of the man to the printed page, so that he may, as it were, 
speak for himself and answer all our queries. 

The next best thing to seeing and conversing with a man is to see his portrait, espe 
cially if a pen picture accompanies it as in the present plan. 

The benefit conferred upon the country by the publication of this work will be the 
more readily seen when the plans of the publishers are considered. If carried out in their 
entirety, the enterprise will not only be gigantic in its proportions, but a benefit to the 
people that can scarcely be overestimated. Taking the population of Canada roughly at 
five millions, and supposing that about one man to a thousand of the population is a 
representative man, there are five thousand men who ought to find a place in THE 
CANADIAN ALBUM. This would involve the publication of seven volumes with a little 
over seven hundred men in each. To this task the publishers have set themselves, and 
from their past record, they will doubtless succeed. Thus THE MEN OF CANADA, from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific, will live in our homes, telling the story of their lives, exerting 
the influence of those qualities of head and heart which have distinguished them, giving 
inspiration and entertainment to the young, and affording companionship for those of riper 
years, giving lessons in experience and a knowledge of human nature which cannot be 
found with similar fulness in any other volume. Nor does the value of this work end in 
sentiment only, important as that is. It has a business and a professional value. It will 
be equally in place in the libraries of the learned professions as on the business man :, 
desk. How important to have a knowledge of the men with whom we do business? 
Mercantile reports are good so far as they go, but they give a man s financial "rating" 
only, and private reports are often necessary to find out who and what the man is. There 


is a felt need to know more about men than is indicated by their mercantile standing, 
because there are often other than business reasons which make information necessary. 
Character, capacity and capital are the qualities which tell the story of a man s worth, 
and, as a rule, the second " capacity " is a product of the first, while the third, "capital," 
is generally a result of the second. Still, as capital is only an incident in the life of a 
man of character and capacity, and not a necessary part of it, this work deals with the 
man himself his character and capacity so that those who desire such information have 
only to consult its pages, and by the aid of its copious index, they are at once made 
conversant with the man in all the phases of his life. 

A man carries his character in his face to a much greater extent than is generally 
supposed. One look at a faithful portrait will often tell the story more than many pages 
of print. While physiognomy has hardly yet attained the dignity of a science, yet there 
is a well founded belief that there is an intimate connection between the features and 
expression of the face and the qualities and habit of the mind, and every man is conscious 
of instinctively drawing conclusions in this way for himself with more or less confidence, 
and of acting upon these conclusions, to a certain extent, in the affairs of life. 

The family album has now become a household necessity, and very properly so. For 
similar reasons this "National Album" should also be a household necessity. We want 
our friends ever with us, and here they ate archbishops, bishops, moderators, general 
superintendents, presidents of churches and their various assemblies, synods, conferences, 
and conventions, together with our pastors and teachers. Here are our legal friends of the 
Bench and the Bar ; those of the medical profession, our educationists, merchants, manufac 
turers and leading agriculturists. Statesmen of the Provincial Legislatures and the 
Dominion Parliament ; public men and private citizens meet and greet us here from all 
parts of our fair Dominion. The East meets the West, and the middle provinces embrace 
both ; space is annihilated, and each man visits every other man around his own hearth 
stone, in the library or in the office. 

This is not a work of fulsome praise, but of facts. The man is a fact ; his birth, 
education, professional or business training, early experiences, marriage, present position, 
church standing, and relation to the country as regards office or influence. These are 
matters not only gratifying to one s friends, but which no good man need blush to read 
concerning himself. On the other hand, the public have a right to know these facts con 
cerning representative men. This kind of information is furnished within these pages, and 
so far as the fads are concerned, they have been verified by the men themselves, with very 
few exceptions, and are thus reliable. For the additional comments here and there, the 
editor and the publishers are alone responsible. Not every man fitted for a place in these 
pages will be found in this first volume, not even, perhaps, from the territory covered by it. 
but in future volumes it is the intention to include the entire Dominion and supply defi 
ciencies in the territory herein represented. 


VI EN 


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^ )\ \\M. COCHRAXK, D. p., 
l\ minister of /ion Presbyterian 
" V^SN Church, Brantford, Out., was 
born in Paisley, Scotland, February 9, 
i.S;i. His lather was from Dairy, 
^hire, and the family sprung from 
the renowned seamen Thos. Cochrane, 
Karl of Dnndonakl, or Lord Cochrane. 
1 1 is mother was from Arran. He began 
his education at the age of fonr and 
continued until twelve, when he entered 
the publishing house of Murray & 
Stewart, and remained ten and a half 
years. He possessed indomitable ener 
gy and devoted his leisure hours to 
stud}-. In his twenty-first year he en 


tered Glasgow University | going from 
Paisley to attend classes at five a.m. 
In his twenty-third year, two gentlemen 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered him menus 
to enter the ministry. Accepting the 
proposal, he entered Hanover College, 
Indiana, in 1854, and graduated with 
the highest honours in 1857. After 
wards he studied theology, under Drs. 
Hodge and Alexander, at Princeton, 
X. ]., and in 1859 was ordained as 
pastor in Jersey City. In 1862 he ac 
cepted the call to Brantford, where he 
has since remained, in spite of invita 
tions to Boston, New York, Chicago, 
Detroit,Toronto, Xewburyport and other 
great cities. In 1874 he 

founded Brantford Ladies 

College, of which he is go 
vernor and lecturer in phil 
osophy. For fourteen years 
he was clerk of Paris pres 
bytery ; for twenty years he 
has been clerk of the Hamil 
ton and London Synod, and 
for about the same period, 
convener of the Home Mis 
sion Committee. For twenty 
years he has been president 
or chairman of the Mech 
anics Institute and Public 
Library. He has had his 
full share of honours. Han 
over College gave him the 
degrees of M.A. and D.D. 
In 1869 he represented his 
church at the British As 
semblies; in 1873 and 1882 
he went as deputy to the 
North-West and British Co 
lumbia; in 1882 he was mo 
derator of assembly, and in 
1884 and 1889 delegate to 
the Pan-Presbyterian Alli 
ances in Belfast and Lon 
don. In addition to platform 
and press contributions he 
has published six volumes. 


XIKX 


CANADA. 


N. SIR JOHN ALEX- 
AXDER MACDOXALD, K.C. 

M.G., B.C. L.,LL.D., was born 
in Glasgow, Scotland, on the nth of 
January, 1815. He was the second son 
of Hugh Macdonald, Sutherlaiidshire, 
who emigrated to Canada when John 
was in his fifth year. The family first 
settled near Kingston, then moved to 
the Bay of Quinte, when John, being 
in his tenth year, was sent to the Royal 
grammar school at Kingston. \Yhen 
1 6 years of age, he began the study of 
law in the office of George Mackenzie. 
One of his first efforts 011 the comple 
tion of his course was defending an 
unfortunate Pole, captured 
in the Rebellion of 37. 
His address brought him so 
prominently into notice that 
in 1844 he was elected for 
Kingston, his maiden speech 
being a reply to the Hon. 
Robert Baldwin. After this 
he was made Receiver- 
General, and, subsequently, 
Minister of Crown Lands. 
On the downfall of the 
Hincks-Morin administra 
tion, he became Attorney- 
General under Sir Allan 
McNab until its resignation, 
when Mr. George Brown 
was called upon to form a 
ministry. The Governor- 
General, however, refusing 
to dissolve the House, the 
old cabinet was recalled, 
with Sir John as leader of 
the Upper Canada division, 
and Sir George E. Cartier 
leader of the Lower Canada 
division. Then came the 
Sandfield Macdonald and 
Tache-Macdonald (John A.I 
administrations, followed by 
the "dead-lock" or "fatal 
balance of parties," that led 


to a coalition, when George Brown, 
Oliver Mowat and Win. McDougall, 
representing the Reformers, entered the 
cabinet. In this movement Sir John 
displa3 ed signal tact and rendered 
eminent service. From that period 
until the present (with the exception of 
the Mackenzie regime, from 1873 to 
1878,) Sir John has remained in power. 
Honors have fallen upon him in rapid 
succession. A knighthood marked the 
completion of Confederation. Then in 
1879 he was sworn in as a member of 
the Privy Council, D.C.L. came from 
Oxford University in 1865, ail&lt; l LL.D. 
from Queen s, and D.C.L. from Toronto. 


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Since the foregoing sketch was writ 
ten, Sir John A. Macdonald has passed 
awa} . On Friday, May 2()ll\, after 
taking part in the debate of the even 
ing, he left the House of Commons, 
where for so long a period he had been 
chief actor, never to return. After 
lingering until Saturday evening, June 
6th, during which period he was almost 
unconscious, the heart ceased to beat 
and the busy brain rested from its 
arduous labors. The tidings of his 
illness and death awakened feelings of 
deepest sympathy and regret among 
all classes and creeds, and evoked the 
sorrow of England s Queen and other 
Sovereigns in the Old \Yorld. The 
land lay under the dark shadow of 
a death, that only once in a long cycle 
of years can occur in any nation. 
Canada has lost many able statesmen 
in recent years, but the removal of one 
who, for nearly half a century, had 
made politics his stud} , and who, for a 
large portion of that time, had been 
leader of the Government and Premier 
of the Dominion, awakened feelings 
of sadness in every citixen. Those 
indeed who were the most bitter politi 
cal opponents of Sir John Macdonald, 

: the first to acknowledge his 
matchless tact, marvellous control of 
men, singular knowledge of human 
nature, and surpassing courage and 
force of character, that enabled him to 
overcome obstacles that would have 
crushed weaker minds. The eulogies 
passed upon the dc.ul statesman were 


legion, and, in many cases, touching 
and eloquent. T\vo of these deserve 
special mention in this volume the 
one by Sir Hector Langevin, the acting 
leader of the House, and the other, the 
brilliant oration of the Hon. Wilfred 
Laurier, the leader of the Opposition, 
which will, for all time coming, be 
ranked among the noblest efforts of 
scholarly statesmen. As was fitting, 
the country which he loved so well gave 
him a national burial, the like of which 
was never before witnessed. In Ottawa 
and Kingston thousands of strong men 
with tear-dimmed eyes followed the 
bier. Faction and party spirit for the 
time were hushed as the hero " of a 
thousand glorious wars " was laid be 
side the dust of kindred. 

" Tis little, but it looks in truth 

As if the quiet lx&gt;nes were blest, 
Anionjj familiar names to rest, 
And in the places of his youth." 

And so we leave him to the verdict of 
posterity, which is for the most part 
just. The web of life is often very 
tangled and perplexing, but after death 
the pattern and colors come out in 
bolder relief. Incidental faults and 
imperfections are lost sight of in view 
of the grand results accomplished. 

" Peace while we shrmid the man of men, 

Let no unhallowed word t&gt;e spoken ; 
He will not answer thee again, 

His mouth is sealed, his wand is broken 

ie holier cause, some \.i-tc-r trust, 

&gt;nd tin- veil In- may inherit, 
| eiitly earth receive his ihist. 
And lie. i\ en soothe Ills troubled ^pirit 


MBX OF- CANADA. 


ON. WILFRED LAURIER, 
B.C.L., A.C., P.C., M.P., and 

^ leader of the Liberal party 
of the Dominion, was born November 
24th, 1841, at St. Lin, L Assomption, 
Quebec. He comes of an old and dis 
tinguished family. After finishing his 
literary studies at the College L As 
somption, he entered the law office of 
the Hon. R. Laflamme. He was called 
to the Bar of Lower Canada in 1865, 
having taken in the previous year the 
degree of B.C.L. at McGill University. 
In 1880 he was appointed Q.C. From 
an early age Mr. Laurier took a deep 
interest in public questions, and also 


gave his attention to literature and 
journalism. He was an earnest advo 
cate of temperance, and delegate to the 
Dominion Prohibitory Convention of 
1875. In 1871 he began public life by 
being elected to the Legislative Assem 
bly of the Province of Quebec. He 
remained there until 1874, when he en 
tered the House of Commons. At once 
on taking his seat his brilliant abilities 
and high character were acknowledged. 
When Mr. Mackenzie was called upon 
to form an administration, the portfolio 
of Inland Revenue was assigned him. 
Since that time Mr. Laurier has been 
one of the most prominent and highly 
respected members of the 
House. An unflinching 
supporter of the Opposition, 
under the Hon. Edward 
Blake as leader, whom he 
was unanimously called 
upon to succeed. Since 
that time his exceptional 
ability, gentlemanly con 
duct, and comprehensive 
grasp of public affairs, has 
secured for him, not only 
the admiration of the 
Liberal party, but the 
spect of the 
now in power, 
he appears as 
cogni/es responsibility at 
taching to ever}- word he 
utters. He speaks with a 
very pure French accent, 
and is a most effective de 
bater. During the political 
campaign of 1891 his labors 
were most abundant and 
successful, especialh in his 
own province, where he 
changed the Government 
majority into a minority. 
Mr. Laurier was married to 
Miss Lafontaine May ijth, 
1868. 


re- 
government 
As a speaker 
one who re- 


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very 


T RHV. joiix WALSH, 

Archbishop of Toronto, was 
burn in tin.- parish of Moon- 

n, Kilkenny Countv, Ireland, May 
.ml is descended from a 
-ld and influential stock. He 
received his education at St. John s Col 
lege, Waterford, and the Seminary of 
the Sulpicians, Montreal. He was or 
dained in 1854, when he was appointed 
to the Brock Mission, Lake Simcoe. 
In 1857 he was appointed to St. Mary s, 
Toronto, and soon after the consecra 
tion of Bishop Lynch in 1859, he was 
summoned to aid him as rector of St. 
Michael s Cathedral, which position he 
filled for about two years. 
After this he resumed his ad 
ministration of St. Mary s 
as Parish Priest and Yicar- 
General of the diocese. 
Shortly after this, owing to 
the impaired health of the 
Bishop of Sandwich, it was 
found necessary to appoint 
a successor, accordingly the 
hierarchy of the ecclesiasti 
cal Province of Quebec 
unanimously nominated 
Vicar-General Walsh as 
bishop, which was ratified 
by the Holy See. The con 
secration of His Lordship 
took place November loth, 
1867, in St. Michael s 
Cathedral, Toronto, with 
uM eat pomp and ceremony. 
In this exalted office he dis 
played administrative talent 
of the highest order. In 

;, he was removed from 
Sandwich to London and 
created Bishop of London 
in 1869. The new cathe 
dral of that diocese may be 
termed the great work of 
his episcopate. His Lord 
ship had long set his heart 


upon raising in God s honor a temple 
worthy the solemn and sublime rites 
of the Church of Christ, and the wMi 
of his heart was reali/ed fully, when, 
in June, 1885, the cathedral was solemn 
ly dedicated. The cost of this splendid 
structure being somewhat over $140,- 
ooo. In 1882 he visited Ireland, and, 
on his return to London, was tendered 
a reception, accompanied with a purse 
of $1,000, as a testimony of esteem. 
After the death of Archbishop Lynch, 
Bishop Walsh was made Archbishop 
of Toronto, which elevated office he 
still holds. He is held in high esteem 
by all classes, irrespective of creed. 


MEN OK 


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^ TON. OLIVER MO WAT, Q.C., 
^TM M.P.P., LL.D., Premier of 
^ Ontario, was born at King 
ston, Out., July 2 2nd, 1820. His 
father carne from Caitheneshire, Scot 
land, to Canada in 1816. Mr. Mowat 
received his education in Kingston, 
having among his fellow pupils Sir 
John A. Macdonald and the late Hon. 
John Hillyard Cameron. He began 
law with Mr. John A. Macdonald, then 
practicing in Kingston. In the Rebel 
lion of 1837 young Mowat joined the 
Royalists. After four years he re 
moved to Toronto, and completed his 
studies under Robert E. Burns. In 
1841 he was called to the 
Bar, and entered into part- __^__ 
nership with Mr. Burns, 
and subsequently with Mr. 
Vaukonghuet. He soon 
acquired a large practice. 
On the dissolution of the 
firm of Mowat & Vaukong 
huet, he was associated with 
the firms of Mowat, Ewart 
& Helliwell, and Mowat, 
Roaf & Davis. About this 
time Mr. Mowat began to 
take a lively interest in 
politics, and entered the 
Liberal ranks as a pro 
nounced, though constitu 
tional, Reformer. In 1856 
he was created Q.C., and 
appointed to consolidate the 
General Statutes of Canada. 
He resigned this position in 
1857, and was elected to the 
House of Assembly for 
South Ontario. In the brief 
administration of 1858 he 
was Provincial Secretary. 
In 1861 he was re-elected for 
South Ontario. He held 
the position of Postmaster- 
General under the Sand- 
field Macdoiiald-Doriou and 


Tache-Macdonald administrations. In 
1864 he was appointed to the Bench, 
and for eight years adorned the position. 
In 1872 he re-entered public life, and 
became Premier ot Ontario, and has 
been representative of North Oxford 
from that date to the present. He en 
joys the confidence of Ontario as an 
able, patriotic statesman, and despite of 
the local Opposition and Dominion 
Government, maintains his large ma 
jority. The many measures of legis 
lation he has carried and his victories 
before the Privy Council of England 
are known to all. In religion he is a 
Presbyterian. 


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=-^TN]-;\ . A. CARMAN. D.D., Gen- 
1\ eral Superintendent of the 

V^s Methodist Church, was horn 
at IriKjuuis, Township of Matilda, 
County nt" I Hindus, Ontario, on June 
27th. i\;;&gt;, and was married to Mary 
-t daughter of James Sisk, on 
July igth, 1860. His parents were 
Philip Carman, son of Captain Michael 

: man, and Emeline Shaver, daughter 
of Colonel Peter Shaver, U. E. Loyal 
ists. His great-grandparents came in 
with Sir Johnston s army after the re 
volutionary war, and settled in Matilda 
Township. Dr. Carman received his 
education at the Matilda Common 


. 


School, the Dtindas County r.rainn 
School, and then at Victoria Colic. 
Cohourg, which he entered in iS^j and 
graduated in iS&gt;(- 1 Hiring his busy 
professional lite he has occupied many 
important positions. From 1854 to 
1X57 he was head master of the Dnndas 
nty Grammar School ; in 1857 and 
i.s^S professor of mathematics in Belle 
ville Seminar)- ; from 1858 to 1874 he 
was principal of Belleville Seminary, 
president of Albert College, and chan 
cellor of Albert University. From 
1874 to 1883 he was Bishop of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, 
and in 1883 was elected General Super 
intendent of the now united 
Methodist Church. He has 
also been principal of the 
Council of Public Instruc 
tion for Ontario ; represen 
tative of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church in Can 
ada ; to the Methodist Epis 
copal Church in the United 
States ; and of the Method 
ist Church, to the same 
body. Dr. Carman is one 
of the most genial of ecclesi 
astics, and whether on the 
platform, in the presidential 
chair, in committee work, or 
in the pulpit, commands the 
full confidence and esteem of 
his brethren. The amount 
of work that he attends to 
is amazing, for since the 
death of the lamented Dr. 
Williams, his colleague, Dr. 
Carman has attended to the 
multifarious details of the 
former joint office. He is a 
powerful preacher, a writer 
of great force, but his dis 
tinguishing characteristic- 
is probably, as a presiding 
officer and administrator, of 
ecclesiastical law. 


OF- CAXA.DA. 


SIR DANIEL WILSON, 
LL.D., F.R.S.E., pre 
sident of University Col 
lege, Toronto, was born 
in the ancient metropolis 
of Scotland in 1816. After 
passing through the High 
School, he entered the uni 
versity of his native city. 
At the age of twenty-one 
he betook himself to Lon 
don to push his fortunes 
there. After a residence of 
several years, during which 
he relied for support chiefly 
on the rewards of literary 
work, he again turned his 
face northward and conti 
nued to wield the pen in 
Edinburgh. Sir Daniel was 
also then, and still is, dis 
tinguished by ail ardent 
love for archaeological stu 
dies ; and naturally gravi 
tated towards the society of 
antiquaries. Before his de 
parture from Scotland three 
works proceeded from his 
pen " Memorials of Edin 
burgh in the Olden Time," 
" Oliver Cromwell and the 
Protectorate," and " The 
Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of 
Scotland." This volume received the 
warmest praise from reviewers, both in 
Britain and America. In 1853 he was 
invited to accept the chair of History 
and English Literature in University 
College, Toronto. In 1862 his new 
work appeared " Prehistoric Man ; 
Researches into the Origin of Civili- 
xation in the Old and New World ;" 
" Chatterton ; A Biographical Study," 
was published in 1869; "Calitan, the 
Missing Link," appeared in 1873, and 
during the same year he republished 
a collection of poems entitled " Spring 
Flowers." In 1878 Sir Daniel issued 


" 


his most recent work, " Reminiscences 
of Old Edinburgh." In addition to 
these works, he has contributed a num 
ber of articles, both to the eighth and 
ninth editions of the " Encyclopaedia 
Britannica." Sir Daniel is connected 
with various public institutions in 
Toronto, such as the Boys Home, the 
Newsboys Home, and in the Young 
Men s Christian Association he has 
taken an active part, and was for some 
years its president. He is an earnest 
member of the Church of England and 
an ardent adherent of the Evangelical 
party, but his sympathies are too broad 
to be contained in an} one church. 


\i i s &gt;! CANAI &gt;.\. 


^T*)IGHT REV. A. SWEATMAN. 
IV D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of To- 
V^&gt; ron to, was born at London, 
Kngland, in November, 1834, He is 
a son of Dr. John Sweatman, of the 
Middlesex Hospital, London. He re 
ceived his early education at the hands 
of private tutors. In 1855 he entered 
Christ s College, Cambridge, and ob 
tained a scholarship the following year, 
and in 1X59 graduated B.A., taking 
honors in mathematics. The same 
\ ear he lained deacon in St. 

Paul s Cathedral, and in the following 
year was ordained priest at Chapel 
Royal, Whitehall, by the late Right 


Rev. Dr. Tail, then Rishop 
of London, and afterwards 
Archbishop of Canterbury. 
For some years after this lu 
lu-Id, first the Curacy of 
Holy Trinity, Islington, and 
then a mastership in the 
Proprietary School, at the 
same time officiating as 
curate of St. Stephen s, 
Canonbury. Mr. Sweatman 
proceeded M.A. in 1862, and 
in 1865 he was offered the 
position of head master in 
the Hellmuth Boys College 
in Canada, which position 
he accepted and filled with 
great satisfaction for seven 
years. He then accepted a 
position in Upper Canada 
College as mathematical 
master, but in 1872 resigned 
this position to accept the 
rectorship of Grace Church, 
Brantford, where he minis 
tered for two years, when 
he was again induced to as 
sume charge of Hellmuth 
College. In 1875 he was 
appointed canon of the 
Cathedral at London, and 
shortly afterwards was 
archdeacon of Brant, and 
rector in charge of St. Paul s, Wood 
stock. In 1879 he was chosen, by the 
almost unanimous vote of the Synod, 
to the vacant Bishopric of Toronto, 
which high and responsible office he 
still fills and adonis by his learning, 
his virtues, and his zeal. The capacity 
for administration in His Lordship as 
a teacher and a priest, finds fuller scope 
for its exercise in the episcopal s&lt; 
and is there revealed more fully, and 
there more brightly shine his intellec 
tual gifts. Dr. Sweatman received his 
: ee of D.D., inn- dignitatis, from the 
I niversity of Cambridge in 1879. 


created 


OF" CANAT3A. 


JOHN H. HAGARTY, 
Chief Justice of Ontario, was 
born on September i jth, 1816, 

in Dublin, Ireland. His father was 

examiner of Her Majesty s Court of 

Prerogative for Ireland. After the 

careful training of a private school, he 

entered Trinity College, where he com 

pleted his education. He came to 

Toronto in 1834, entered the law office 

of the late George Duggan in 1835, 

and was called to the Bar in 1840. 

He at once began practice in Toronto, 

and in 1846 entered into partnership 

with the late John Crawford. His first 

appearances at the Bar gave promise of 

a brilliant future, and he 

soon acquired a large and 

lucrative practice. In 1 850 

he was made Q.C. by the 

Baldwin administration. In 

1856, a vacancy occurring 

on the Bench, he was offered 

the appointment, which he 

accepted. He was not less 

distinguished among his 

brother judges than he had 

been at the Bar, so that 

when, in 1868, a vacancy 

occurred in the Chief Jus 

ticeship of Common Pleas, 

he was elevated to that 

office. In his judgments 
Justice Hagarty 
a wide knowledge 

of law, a thorough grasp 

of principles, and a fear 

lessness in the discharge of 

duty. They are all marked 

by careful thought and ela 

borate research. In addi 

tion to his high judicial 

abilities, his name is not 

unfamiliar to the lovers of 

belle* lettres in connection 

with his poetical contribu 

tions from time to time. 

Indeed, it has been said, 


Chief 
shows 


that in Chief Justice Hagarty " a good 
poet was sacrificed to the lawyer and 
the judge." With general literature 
he is also thoroughly familiar, and 
there is a thrill of literary fervor in 
his conversation when he meets with 
congenial spirits. Among the many 
eminent men who have given grace 
and dignity to the Bench in Canada, 
Chief Justice Hagarty occupies the 
very front rank. Apart from his 
eminent judicial abilities, he is held 
in the highest esteem by all classes 
in the Dominion, and in his position 
as Chief Justice he commands the con 
fidence of the Bench and the Bar. 


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Mi:x OF v. \\N.\I..\. 


AVID I.F.SUK PHII.ir. M.D.. was 
at Richmond, One., on the ^nd of Jan- 
nan-, 1X41. HI waa educated at the 
High School, Yankleek Hill, and subsequently 
at McC.ill College. Montreal, where he gradu 
ated in i So;,, obtaining first pri/e for thesis, and 
:n clinical medicine. His parents, on coming 
:iada. settled in Richmond. On graduating 
-tiled in Woodstock, in partnership with 
Dr. Torquand. He afterwards went to Plattsville 
where, for six years, he enjoyed a very large- 
practice, and then removed to Brantford. On 
leaving Plattsville, the medical profession, en 
tertained him at dinner and presented him with 
a handsome case of surgical instruments. Dr. 
Philip has been for twelve years member of the 
Collegiate Institute board, and for three years, 
chairman. In 1884 he was elected vice-president 
of the Ontario Medical Association, and in 1885 
representative to the Krie and Niagara division 
of the Ontario Medical Council, and again in 
1890, without opposition, for a second term of 
five years. He is a member of Zion Presby 
terian Church and of the board of management ; 
also a member of various local societies. 


Kulil.k T Hi 


JiAVIP illl.II . M 1). 


RT HKN RV, of the firm of 
A. Watts & Co., Brantford, was 
45) born on the 3oth of Novem 
ber, 1X45, in Perthshire, Scotland, from 
whence his parents came in 1X54, and settled 
in Brantford. He was educated at the Brant- 
ford schools. Beginning business life early he 
has, by indomitable energy, raised himself to 
a prominent position in the mercantile world. 
He was married on the i6th of December, 1879, 
to tarrie, daughter of the late Mr. Anthony 
Philip, of Vankleek Hill. Mr. Henry has been 
president of the South Brant Agricultural Society, 
of St. Andrews Society, of the South Brant 
Conservative Association, and is a director of 
the Brantford Young Ladies College and vice- 
president of the board. In religion he is Pres 
byterian, and member of the board of man 
agement of Zion Church. In 1878 and 187^ In 
was mayor of Brantford, and again ek&gt;ud in 
1887. In politics he is conservative and at 
tion time does yeoman work for his p.nu . There 
U DM man held in higher esteem by all 

ininunity, or one who is more devoted to 
the iir his adopted city. 


OF CAXADA.. 


r 


UGH ROBERTSON, M.D., 
Professor of Anatomy, Trinity 
Medical College, was born 
in Thorold, County of Welland, Ont. 
His parents were John and Jean Taylor 
Robertson, natives of Scotland. The 
family are descendants of the Robert 
sons who acquired Orkney and other 
lands in Nairnshire (1450 A.D.), and 
also possessed the estate of Strnan in 
Perthshire. He entered Victoria Medi 
cal College in 1867. In 1870 he 
graduated from Toronto University 
with honors, and was licensed by the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
He then went to Europe, studied in 


St. Thomas Hospital, London, and 
received the degree of M.R.C.S., Eng 
land. In 1872 he began practice in 
Toronto and was elected professor of 
anatomy in Trinity University, and in 
1874 examiner of anatomy in the Col 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. In 
1879 he was elected treasurer of Trinity 
Medical College, and in 1887 its repre 
sentative on the senate of the Univer 
sity of Toronto. In 1880 he w; s 
chosen as medical director of the Cana 
dian Mutual Life Association, and in 
1888 a director of the British America 
Assurance Co. Dr. Robertson is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. 


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MEN 


CAN.\I&gt;.\. 


r 


EMKRSOX COATS\VORTH, Jr., 
i _ M.I .. LL.B,, barrister, Toronto, 
- was born in that city March 
9th. iSvj. . He was educated at the 
public schools, and studied privately 
for matriculation into the Law Society. 
Afterwards he attended Osgoode Hall, 
and graduated in law in Toronto 
University in 1886. His father, now 
City Commissioner of Toronto, was a 
builder, which trade his son also followed 
until iS73, wlu-n, on his father accept 
ing his present office, he, his brother 
and cousin continued the business until 
1X75, when the firm dissolved. Mr. 
Coatsworth be^an the study of law in 


1875 with Mr. (now Justice) Rose, and 
completed his course in 1879, when he 
entered the firm of Rose, Macdonald, 
Merritt & Coatsworth. This firm con 
tinued until 1883, when Mr. Rose was 
made Judge. Air. Coatsworth then 
practiced alone, and afterwards entered 
into partnership with Frank K. Hodgins. 
Subsequently Walter A. (ieddc-s was 
added, and it is now known as Coats 
worth, Hod.^ins o\: Co. The firm has 
now a hijji standing. Mr. Coatsworth 
was married September loth, iSS-, to 
Helen, daughter of John Robertson, of 
U LYw Falls. He was elected M.I , 
for Ka-t Toronto in iSgi. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


ILLOUGHBY STAPLES BREWS- 
TER, barrister at law, was born on 
the gth of July, 1860, in Haldimand, county 
of Northumberland, and was married on the 
1 6th of August, 1887, to Mary L. Horning, 
daughter of James Horning, librarian, Brant 
ford Public Library. He was educated at 
Cobourg Collegiate Institute, and finished his 
art course at Victoria College, where he took 
his degree in 1882. He took several honors, 
such as gold medals in classics and Prince of 
Wales silver medal. In his early years he 
was brought up on a farm and during his 
attendance at college worked on the farm 
during vacation. Subsequently he studied 
law in the office of Fitch & Lees, Brantford, 
and on the completion of his law course, 
entered into partnership with B. E. Fitch, 
where he remained until the latter s death. 
Since then he has practiced alone. Mr. 
Brewster is a member of the Brant Avenue 
Methodist Church ; also of the quarterly 
board. He is at present a member of the 
public school board in the city of Brantford. 


J 


AMES HARLEY was born on the i 5 th 
of August, 1850, in the township of Bur- 
-^ ford, county of Brant, and was married on 
the 2nd of November, 1881, to Miss Annie C. 
Manson, of Port Hope, Out. He received his 
education at the Brantford Collegiate Institute. 
In his early days he worked on his father s 
farm, in the township of Burford, until his pre 
paration for professional life in January, 1874. 
He was called to the bar in February, i8Si, 
and has since built up an extensive and lucra 
tive practice in connection with the firm of 
Harley & Sweet. Mr. Harley is a member 
of the Colborne Street Methodist Church and 
recording steward. He was alderman for the 
city from 1887 to 1889 ; a governor of the 
John H. Stratford Hospital for 1888 and 1889, 
and is at present a member of the Brantford 
Collegiate Institute board. Mr. Harley is held 
in the greatest respect by all who know him 
in professional life, as a man of the strictest 
integrity, a wise counsellor, and an able ad 
vocate. He is one of the few men who 
possess the confidence of all parties. 


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CANADA. 


GEORC.K r.ORDON MII.I.S, B.A. 

^* 

EORGE GORDON MILLS, B.A., 
barrister, Toronto, was born on 3oth 
of August, 1850, and was married in I .ng- 
land in 1882 to Kitty, daughter of T. O. 
Jones, Esq., of South Australia. Mr. Mills 
is of Irish parentage. His father, who died 
in 1876, was a man of great integrity and 
force of character. His mother (still living) 
is noted for gentleness and piety. He lived 
with the family on a farm near Bond Head, 
until twenty years of age. He then entered 
Brantford Collegiate Institute under the prin- 
.-ipalship of his brother James, now of the 
Guelph Agricultural College. Here he took 
prizes, and in 1874 matriculated 
in Victoria with highest honors and two first 
scholarships He taught in Brantford Insti 
tute then returned to college and 
graduated HA. in 1878. Mr. Mills then 
studied law, was called to the Toronto Bar 
and removed to Winnipeg, where he soon 
gained distinction as an equity practitioner. 
In 1887 he was appointed Deputy Attorney - 
General for Manitoba, ami returning to 
Toronto in is-Sy, entered into partnership 


ALKXANDKR MILLS. 

with his brother. In religion Mr. Mills is 
a Methodist and actively engaged in church 
work. 

ALEXANDER MILLS, brother of G. G. 
Mills, was born on 2nd of January, 1856, 
and was married in 1888 to Minnie, daughter 
of the Rev. Dr. Shaw. His early years were 
also spent on the farm until he went to Brant 
ford in 1876 and studied under his brother 
James, taking the general proficiency scholar 
ship. He studied law with Mr. Fitch, of 
Brantford, in 1878-1882, and finished under 
W. A. Foster, Q.C., in Toronto, having taken 
two first scholarships. In is*4 he was medal 
list and called to the Bar with honors. Mr. 
Mills began practice alone in Toronto, and 
afterwards entered the firm of Mills. Heigh- 
mgton & Urquhart, ami finally, in i 
sociated with his brother George, under tin- 
style of Mills cV Mills, and the firm have 
already established a large practice. Mr. 
Mills, like his brother, is engaged in mis 
. work, and ho]. Is important offices in 
connection with the MetrojHilitan Church, 
Toronto. 


MKN 


CANADA. 


IEV. ABRAM LEONARD 
GEE, Ph.B., is the youngest 
son of Captain John Gee, 
of U.E. Loyalist descent. He was 
born in the Township of Gainsboro, 
Lincoln County, Ontario, on the 3ist 
of March, 1854, and was married to 
Martha A., only daughter of M. Parker, 
Esq., Basingstoke, Ont., on the i2th of 
March, 1878. Mr. Gee had the advan 
tage of an excellent common school 
education, and, in addition, took up 
Latin, physics and the higher branches 
of mathematics. At the age of eighteen 
he obtained a third-class certificate, 
under which he taught two years. At 


nineteen years of age he made pro 
fession of his faith in Christ, and was 
received on trial as a travelling preacher 
by the Niagara Conference of the M.E. 
Church in 1874, having then just 
passed his twentieth birthday. During 
his ministry Mr. Gee has labored in 
Brant, Saltfleet, Beverly, St. Davids, 
"Welland, Brantford, Smithville and 
Jerseyville, where he is now stationed, 
remaining in each place, since his or 
dination in 1878, the full term of 
three years. While stationed at Brant- 
ford, Mr. Gee carried on evange 
listic work, which resulted, under the 
blessing of God, in over 600 converts 
in and around the city. He 
called together the first com 
mittee and started the sub 
scription list for the erec 
tion of the Colborne Street 
Methodist Church, and was 
chairman of the first board 
of trustees. In 1884 Mr. 
Gee matriculated as a stu 
dent of philosophy in the 
Illinois Wesleyan Univer 
sity, and while engaged in 
regular pastoral work pur 
sued higher studies in Latin, 
mathematics, history, poli 
tical science, natural philo 
sophy and science, and hav 
ing passed satisfactorily the 
examinations, the degree of 
Bachelor was conferred upon 
him in 1889. As a faithful 
pastor and a loyal son of 
the Methodist Church, he 
is deservedly held in the 
highest esteem by his breth 
ren. His studious habits and 
indomitable perseverance 
give promise of much in the 
future. He is popular among 
the people on the circuits he 
has travelled and takes high 
rank as a preacher 


MEN OK CANADA. 


= ^-X(I\.\I.D KWKX CAMERON, 

I IV])iity Provincial Treasurer, 
lament Buildings. Toron- 
to, &lt; &gt;nt., was born at Beavcrtoii, &lt; hitario 
Count v, November 1 2th, 1X5 1. His 
mdfather, Donald Cameron, emigrat 
ed t roin Inverness, Scotland, in iS_ ;,, 
when the- fatlu-r of onr sketch, Kwcn 
Cameron, was but six years old, and 
".led in Glengarry. In 1X^5 he 
moved west and settled in Tliorali 
township, Ontario Count} , near the 
present village of Beaverton. Mr. 
Cameron was educated in the public- 
schools of his native county and left 
home at the age of fifteen to engage in 
commercial pursuits. In 
1869 he entered the Bank 
of Toronto and served suc 
cessively in its branches at 
Barrie, Toronto, and Mont 
real. In 1875 he became 
manager of the Exchange 
P&gt;ank of Canada at Park- 
hill, remaining with that 
bank until 1878, when he 
started a private banking 
institution at Lucknow, 
County of Bruce. This he 
carried on until May, 1888, 
when he received the ap 
pointment which he now 
holds in the Legislature of 
&lt; hitario. His appointment 
to his present position is 
entirely due to his acknow 
ledged fitness and ability 
and not for any political 
services rendered his party. 
Mr. Cameron is one of the 
nio.st fluent, forcible and 
convincing speakers among 
the Liberal young men who 
take an active part in elec 
tion campaigns. He is one 
of the founders of the 
Yoi .n- Men s Liberal Club 
of Toronto, and takes an 


active part in all that appertains to the 
social and political advancement, not 
only of Toronto, but of the Province 
of Ontario. He is well known as a 
successful lecturer on the temperance 
question and other popular Canadian 
topics. Mr. Cameron also takes an 
active interest in musical matters, and 
is at present President of the Haslam 
Vocal Society, of Toronto. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and also belongs to the Masonic brother 
hood. In 1885 he married Mary Eliza 
beth \Vhitely, daughter of Robert J. 
Whitely, of Lucknow, Bruce County, 
Ontario. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


- CHARLES LEYCESTER INGLES, 
M.A., was born at Drummondville, 
Ont., April 2oth, 1856. His father 
was the late Rev. Charles I*. Ingles, M.A., of 
Stamford, and his mother, a daughter of General 
John Muncey, of the British army. Mr. Ingles 
is the fifth generation of Church of England 
clergymen, dating back beyond the Head Master 
ship of Rugby, which was held by his great 
grandfather. He was educated at Trinity Col 
lege School at Port Hope, and Trinity University, 
Toronto, graduating with honors in 1877. In 
1885 he received the degree of M.A., and on the 
2ist of September, 1879, was ordained deacon 
and appointed to St. Mark s, Parkdale. On the 
26th of the September, 1880, he was ordained to 
the priesthood of the Anglican Church in 
Canada, and has been pastor of St. Mark s ever 
since. The parish having become too large, in 
1887 another parish was formed as the parish 
of the Church of the Epiphany. Mr. Ingles is a 
member of the United Workmen. He was mar 
ried on the 6th of June, 1882, to Frances 
Helen, adopted daughter of James Young, 
of Toronto. 


CHARI.KS v. SXELGROVE. L.D.S. 


REV. C. LEYCESTER INGLES. 


/CHARLES V. SNELGROYE, L.D.S., prac- 
l ticing Dental Surgeon, Toronto, Ont., was 

^ ^"z&gt; born on the i.|.th of February, 1859, 
at Ingersoll, Count} of Oxford, Ont. He is a 
son of Abram Snelgrove, contractor, of the same 
place. He was married on the 27th of October, 
1887, to Isabella Sinclair, daughter of John 
Sinclair, merchant, Toronto. Mr. Snelgrove was 
educated in the public schools of Ingersoll, and 
in 1877 entered the office of Mr. Charles Ken 
ned)-, Ingersoll, where he began the study of 
dental surgery. In 1881 he entered the Royal 
College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, where he 
completed his course and graduated in 1X84. 
He has given several clinics at the meetings of 
the Ontario Dental Society, and takes an active 
part in the affairs of the conventions hdd in 
Ontario and elsewhere. Mr. Snelgrove is very 
highly esteemed by his fellow dentists, and is 
one of Toronto s enterprising young men in the 
highest sense of the word. He is at present 
vice-president of the Ontario Dental Society and 
a member of Knox Presbyterian Church. He 
has a growing practice and enjoys the confidence 
of a large circle of friends. 


MIX 


CANADA. 


UKOKC.K I.. HALL. 


G^~ 
EORGE L. BALL, Dentist, Toronto, Ont., 
was born on the igth of August, 1858, 
in Uxbridge, Ont. He was married on the ijth 
of February, 1885, to the only daughter of the 
late Charles vSherriff, Esq., Brussels. His father 
is Henry Ball, Esq., Brussels. Dr. Ball received 
his education at the Georgetown Academy, with 
a view to entering the ministry ; but after Ix-ing 
received as a candidate, was obliged, on account 
of ill-health, to change his intentions. In 1839 
he entered the office of Dr. Watson to study 
dentistry, and after the regular examinations of 
the Royal College of Dental Surgeons. Toronto, 
graduated in i.s.S-i, being one of four to carry off 
honors presented by the faculty. After practicing 
with eminent success four years in Seaforth. he 
removed to Toronto, where he is building up a 

and select practice. Dr. Ball is a member 
of the Methodist Church, and takes an active 
part in Sabbath School and other church work. 

at the present time a local preacher, trustee 
and Bible class tr.-u her. A man of sterling char 
acter ; he has won the confidence and enjoys 
the res]x.-ct of a large innnl&gt;er of friends. Such 
men leave their impress on the world. 


^^T\l-.\. F.r.FXF.ZFR B. I.AXCKI.F.Y. 

|\ of Colborne Street Methodist Church. 
V^S London. ( int.. was born at Cobotirg. 
i&gt;tcml&gt;er iSth, 1*57. and was married &lt; &gt;ctobci 
islh. i Mice, daughter of the late &lt; &lt; 

Munroe, of the township of London. He was 
the youngest of eleven children, his father and 
mother coming from England in 1854. He re 
moved with his parents from Cobourg to Hamil 
ton in 1868, and after attending the public 
schools in these places, entered the Wesleyan 
Theological College and McGill University, 
Montreal. For a time after leaving the public 
school he was in mercantile life. At the age ol 
19 he was commended by the Quarterly Board 
of the Centenary Church, Hamilton, for the 
ministry, and in June, 1877, was appointed to 
the Stoney Creek circuit. He was ordained in 
1882 at Woodstock, and appointed assistant to 
Dr. Williams, the President of the Conference. 
Thence he served Strathroy one year, London 
West three years, Forest one year, and Coll&gt;orne 
Street, London, three years. At the 
London Conference of 1890 Mr. Lanceley 
was journal secretary. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


\\/M. FREDERICK WALKER, 
V \ M.A., LL.B., O.C., Hamilton, 
Out., was born on the 28th of December, 
1845, in the township of Clinton, 
Count} of Lincoln. He received his 
primary education at Beamsville Gram 
mar School, and graduated at Toronto 
University in 1867, taking also M.A. 
in 1869, and LL.B. (and medalist) in 
1874. He was called to the Bar of 
( )ntario in December, 1871, and at once 
entered into partnership with the present 
Hon. Mr. Justice Burton, and was sub 
sequently created Q.C. by Dominion 
appointment in December, 1889. Mr. 
Walker continued in his partnership 


with Mr. Burton until the latter s ele 
vation to the Bench of the Court of 
Appeal in Ontario. He is at present 
head member of the firm of Walker, 
Scott & Lees, Hamilton. Mr. Walker 
occupies a distinguished position in the 
legal profession, and his firm enjoys a 
large practice in the city and surround 
ing country. He was selected as Ex 
aminer in Law by the Senate of the 
University of Toronto, and held that 
honorable position for the period of 
tour consecutive years, that being tin- 
longest term allowed by law for the 
same person to hold the office. This 
speaks volumes for his legal ability. 


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MI;N OF* CANADA 


, 


~ 


LFRED BENNISON ATHER- 
TON, B.A., M.D. ; L.R.C.P. 

*- Me S., I Edinburgh, was born 
January _&gt;jnd, 1843, at Queensbnry, 
York County, New Brunswick. His 
paix-nts were John and Charlotte Perley 
Atherton, both of whose forefathers 
cnme from New England to New 
Brunswick about 1760, and were of 
Puritan stock. lie received the degree 
of I .. A. at the I niversity of New 
Brunswick in 1X62, and subsequently 
studied medicine at Harvard, Boston, 
where lie graduated in iSMi. Aft 
further course of study in Kdinhurgh, 
he received the diplomas of the Royal 


Colleges there in i,Sf&gt;~. He began prac 
tice in Fredericton in iSd-. and re 
mained there till i.SS^, when, after a 
visit to the hospitals of London, Kng.. 
he removed to Toronto. I Ie was a mem 
ber of the senate of the I niversity of 
New Brunswick from 1X0710 iSS.j, and 
a member of the medical connci . 
New Brunswick from iSSi to iSS.}. 1 K 
also has held the positions oi vice-presi 
dent of the Canadian Mcdii .cia- 
tion and ])resident of the Toronto Medi 
cal Society. He is now lecturer on the 
principles of surgery at the Women s 
Medical Colle. . ttmtO, and surgeon 
toSt. Joinf&gt; Hospital for Womeu. 


IVIEN OF CANADA. 


H. COX, retired captain 
and mayor of Paris, " Clare- 
mont " Paris, Ont., was born 
on the nth of November, 1852, at 
Chatham, Kent County, England, his 
parents, however, resided in Dorset 
shire, where he calls home. Captain 
Cox was educated at King s College, 
Sherbourne, Dorsetshire, England, and 
afterwards came to this country in the 
spring of 1869, where he worked for a 
time as a farm pupil, and afterwards 
settled on a farm two miles south of 
Paris. In the year 1880 he retired 
from active agricultural pursuits and 
settled in the town where he has re 


sided ever since. During recent years 
he has not engaged in any business, 
but has devoted considerable time to 
the interests of the town, filling num 
erous offices of importance. He was 
married on the lyth of November, 
1875, to Annie Saliiia, youngest 
daughter of Captain James B. Harris, 
late of Her Majesty s 24th Regiment. 
Coming from a military race, his father 
being Colonel of Her Majesty s 56th 
Foot, Captain Cox having passed his 
military examinations, joined the volun 
teer forces of Canada in 1871. He 
commanded the Paris Company for 
eight years, and retired with rank in 
1882. In politics Captain 
Cox is a Liberal-Conserva 
tive, and is president of the 
Conservative Association 
for the South Riding of 
Brant. He is also secretary 
of the Paris Board of Trade, 
and of the Masonic frater 
nity, offices which he has 
held for some years, and he 
is a Past Master of the 
latter. He has been con 
nected with various local 
athletic associations. Capt. 
Cox is a member of the 
Anglican Church, warden 
of St. James Church, Paris, 
and delegate to the Synod 
of Huron. In the Dominion 
general elections of 1891 
he received the unanimous 
nomination of the Conser 
vative Convention to contest 
the Riding of South Brant 
with Win. Patterson, M.P., 
but was defeated after a 
gallant fight. He has ren 
dered such service to the 
town of Paris that he is held 
in the highest esteem by the 
residents of this important 
and picturesque town. 


\n:x or CANADA. 


I )OBKRT I KKL KCIII.IX. M.A., 
|V barrister, solicitor, etc., Toronto, 
&gt;^z v. as horn on the :&gt;9th August, 

-6, in Dundas, Countv of \Yeiit- 
worth, &lt; )nt. His father was James 

ilin. Kchlinvillc, County Down, 
Ireland. The Kchlins are an old 
family, tracing their ancestry back to 
the i ;th century. His mother was 
Jane Robertson, who came of a well- 
known family in Glasgow, Scotland. 
Mr. Echlin received his education at 
Cobourg Collegiate Institute and Vic 
toria University, where he graduated 
as B.A. in 1878, obtaining the Prince 
of Wales silver medal for general pro 
ficiency. Three years later 
he received the degree of 
M.A. While an under 
graduate he taught two 
years as assistant master in 
the Brant ford Collegiate In 
stitute, and after graduation 
held the position of head 
master in the Caledonia 
I ligh School. At college he 
was a general favorite with 
all his fellow students, who 
elected him by acclamation, 
in his final year at college 
as president of the Literary 
Society of Victoria Univer 
sity. In September, 1880, 
Mr. Kehlin entered the law 
office of Messrs. McClive, 
r.illeland & Pattison, St. 
Catharines, and two years 
later the office of Messrs. 
Rlake, Kerr, Lash & Cas- 
sels, Toronto. He was called 
to the Mar in the Easter 
term of iSS^, and shortly 
afterwards commenced the 
practice of his profession in 
Toronto. While courteous 
to all, he is a man of aggres 
sive nature. In pr ial 
contents he is neither dis- 


posed to grant nor accept favors. Tlis 
recognized abilities and exceptional 
capacity for work must place him 
long in the front rank of his profes 
sion, and probably lead ultimately to the 
Ilciich, which is the desired goal of tin- 
legal profession. Mr. Kehlin is a mem 
ber of the Ontario Reform Club and 
Young Men s Liberal Club, and an 
office-holder in the Reform Association, 
Toronto. In politics he is an advanced 
Liberal. He is an enthusiastic Free 
Mason and a member of St. Andrew s 
Lodge No. 16 G.R.C., the mother lodge 
of the Right Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald 
and other prominent Canadians. 


MKN OF* CANADA. 


THOMAS MILLMAN, 

JL M.D.,M.R.C.S.,Eng 
land; L.R.C.P., Edinburgh; 

F.O.S., London, Eng., etc., 
was born near Woodstock, 
Out., on the i4th February, 
1850, his father being Thos. 
Millman, of Devonshire, 
Eng., and his mother Maria 
Taylor, of Norfolk, Eng. 
Dr. Millman was educated 
in the Woodstock Grammar 
School until 1869, when he 
entered Trinity Medical 
College, Toronto, where he 
graduated in 1873. He then 
received the appointment as 
assistant surgeon to the 
British North American 
Boundary Commission of 
1873-75. He then went to 
Europe and spent two years 
in London and Edinburgh, 
passing the examination for 
membership in the Royal 
College of Surgeons, Eng 
land, and became a licen 
tiate of the Royal College 
of Physicians, Edinburgh. 
He was also appointed Re 
sident Accoucheur of St. 
Thomas Hospital, London, 
and was elected a Ecllow of the Obste 
trical Society, London. Returning to 
Canada he began practice in Wood 
stock, and in 1879 received the appoint 
ment of assistant physician at the 
Asylum for the Insane, London, Out. 
In 1885 he was appointed assistant 
medical superintendent of the Asylum 
for the Insane, Kingston, Out., which 
position he resigned in 1889, having 
decided to remove to Toronto and re 
sume general practice. On his removal 
from the London to the Kingston 
Asylum, he was presented with a hand 
some gold watch by the officers and 
emplovces of the former institution, 


and on leaving Kingston was presented 
with a fine microscope. He has devoted 
considerable time to botany and has a 
fine collection of the Canadian flora. 
Dr. Millman is a member of St. 
Philip s Episcopal Church, Toronto, and 
holds the office of church warden. He 
is a Mason of fifteen years standing 
and a Past Master of the Order. He is 
also a member of the Independent Order 
of Foresters, and for eight years has 
been Supreme Physician of the ( )rder, 
a position of great responsibility as 
well as honor. Dr. Millman married, 
in 1 88 1, Helen I). Craig, daughter of 
John Craig, Edinburgh, Scotland. 


MKN op CAN An A. 


\\7iLLiAM FOSTER COCK-* 

&gt; V SHUTT, Brantford, Ontario, 
was born October i/th, 1855, at Braut- 
ford. He was educated at private 
schools, the Brantford Collegiate Insti 
tute, and at Gait Collegiate Institute. 
IK- left school at the age of sixteen 
and commenced business with his father, 
I. Cockshutt. After four years he 
went to England to complete his busi 
ness education, first to West Hartle- 
pool with Messrs. Tlios. Furness & Co., 
provision merchants and steamship 
owners, and then to London; and 
through Messrs. Peek Bros. & C 
wholesale tea and spice merchants, he- 


received instructions in that 
liraiu-h of trade. After re 
maining in London a few 
months he came buck to 
Canada and took the man 
agement of a branch of his 
father s business until iSS;&gt;, 
when he commenced busi 
ness for himself. He has 
now an extensive business 
in groceries and provisions, 
and also in hardware. For 
many years Mr. Cockshutt 
was a member of the Far- 
ringdon Chxirch, and an ac 
ceptable preacher among 
them, but latterly he has 
been an adherent of Grace 
Episcopalian Church, Brant 
ford. He has taken great 
interest in the Farringdon 
Debating Society, being one 
of the charter members of 
the rc-organixed society, and 
for two years its president. 
In 1887 he was the Conser 
vative candidate to contest 
the riding of South Brant 
with \Ym. Patterson, M.P., 
but after an able campaign 
was defeated. He was pre 
sident of the Brantford 
Board of Trade in 1888. For about 
three years he was president of the 
Cockshutt Plow Co., from which he 
retired in 1889. He is a member of 
the Toronto Board of Trade, and is 
well and favorably known to the busi 
ness community of that city and also 
of Montreal. Mr. Cockshutt visits 
Europe once a year, and enjoys the full 
confidence of many of the great imr- 
cuntile houses in the United Kingdom. 
He has been a great traveller, having 
crossed the Atlantic twenty-four times, 
tile continent four times, and made a 
complete tour of Cuba, Mexico. United 
States and Canada. 


MEN OF" CANADA- 


TV LBERT OGDEN, barrister and 
.i"\ solicitor, Toronto, was born 
^^ agth September, 1847, in the 
township of Toronto, Count} 7 of Peel, 
Ont. His parents were William J. 
Ogden, officer in the York County 
Militia, and Rebecca Ogden. His 
father s family can be traced back to 
the time of Charles II., and one of his 
ancestors received recognition and coat 
armor for services rendered the king. 
He was educated at the public schools, 
a commercial college, and the Toronto 
Collegiate Institute. In iSyi he en 
tered the law office of Cameron, 
McMichael and Hoskin, was called to 


the Bar in 1876, and became junior 
member of the firm. On the elevation 
of Mr. Cameron to the Bench in 1878, 
the firm became McMichael, Hoskiu & 
Ogden. In 1889 Messrs. Hoskin and 
Ogden formed their present partnership. 
He is a member, and the chief official 
for many years, of Queen Street 
Methodist Church, also a member of 
the I.O.O.F., being a Past Master of 
his lodge, and is a member of the Sons 
of England Societv and other organiza 
tions. In politics he is a Liberal. On 
the aoth December, 1877, he was 
married to Mary, daughter of Edward 
Leadlay, merchant, of Toronto. 


MEN OF CAXADA. 


"YY/ILLIAM CASE ADAMS,* 

* ^ L.D.S., practicing Dental Sur 
geon, Toronto, Out., was born on the 
i Nth of October, 1823, at Lundy s Lane, 
Niagara, and is the son of the late Rev. 
a Adams, Methodist minister. In 
1857 he married Matilda Osman, 
daughter of John Osman, Esq., of 
Seneca Falls, X.Y., by whom he has 
one daughter. Dr. Adams education 
was carried on under difficulties, his 
father being an itinerant minister. At 
an early a^c lie was left to make his 
own living. When only sixteen he left 
home and commenced working at the 
carpenter s trade, and soon earned 


enough money to attend school ; he 
afterwards taught school, and finally 
attended Victoria College and was 
studying medicine, when he was advised 
by a dentist to turn his attention to 
dentistry. He took the advice and 
studied under the direction of an Kn.^- 
lish practitioner. In 1852 he began 
practice and settled in Toronto in 185.}. 
He is now the oldest practicing dental 
surgeon in the city. Dr. Adams is a 
member of the Methodist Church, and 
has been class leader for many years. 
He is also a member of the Masonic 
( )rder. and is 1 ast Chaplain in the Royal 
Arcanum Lodge, Toronto. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


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THE HON. EDWARD 
A BLAKE, Q.C., eldest 
sor. of William Hume 
Blake, was born at Bear 
Creek, county of Middlesex, 
on the 1 3th October, 1833. 
When Edward was a few 
months old his father re 
moved to Toronto. As a 
lad he gave evidence of 
great mental powers. He 
was an omnivorous reader, 
had unusual capacity for as 
similation, and an excellent 
memory. He was a siic- 
cessful competitor for the 
Governor - General s prize, 
and subsequently entered 
the Toronto University. 
He was admitted as attorney 
in 1856, and the following 
Michaelmas term was called 
to the bar. He carried on 
business for some time 
alone, and then entered in 
to partnership with Mr. 
Stephen Waule Jarvis. 
Thereafter, the name of the 
firm many times changed. 
In 1858 he married Mar 
garet, daughter of the late 
I! i shop Cronyn, of Huron. 
Ever since 1867 the Reform party re 
cognized what a gain it would be to add 
Edward Blake s ability and high char 
acter to its ranks. After much earnest 
solicitation he consented to their request 
and was elected to the House of Com 
mons for West Durham. In December, 
1869, he became leader of the Provin 
cial opposition. In the Ontario elec 
tions of 1871 John Sandfield McDon 
ald s Government lost many supporters. 
On the assembling of the Legislature, 
Mr. McKenzie moved a want of confid 
ence and Mr. Blake supported the mo 
tion. The ministry being overthrown, 
Mr. Blake was called to form a govern 


ment, a task which he accepted against 
his inclination. In the autumn he re 
signed his leadership to take his seat in 
the House of Commons. On the down 
fall of Sir John A. Macdonald s admin 
istration, Mr. Blake entered Mr. Mc- 
Kenzie s cabinet, without portfolio, but 
resigned on the following February. 
In 1875 he accepted office again as 
Minister of Justice. In 1877 he re 
signed this office and became president 
of the council. Shortly after the 
downfall of the administration, he was 
chosen leader of the Opposition ill 
place of Mr. McKenzie, and was suc 
ceeded by Mr. Lanric-r. 


MK.N OP- CANADA. 


(-KORGE KENNEDY, M.A* 
LL.D., barrister-at-law, Crown 
Lands Department, Toronto, Ont., was 
l&gt;&lt;&gt;rn at By town (now the cit} of 
Ottawa) on March 1st, 1838. He" was 
educated at Carleton County Model 
bool, Ayhner Academy, Ottawa 
iinniar School, and University Col- 
le-e, Toronto. He matriculated in 
Ton.nto University in 1853, took first 
classical scholarship, and held first- 
class honors in classics, mathematics, 
metaphysics and ethics, logic, rhetoric, 
modern languages, history and English 
literature. He was also gold medalist 
in metaphysics and ethics. He -radii- 


ated B.A. in [857, M..\. in 
i s &lt;&gt;". I.I..! .. in iSh.j, and 
I.I.I &gt;. in 1X77. He U-camc 
head master of ( .rcnville 
:nity (Irammar School in 
iS^q, and second master of 
( &gt;ttawa C.rammar School 
in i Son and iSOi, where 
he also had at the same time 
charge of the branch M, | 
rological Observatory. Mr. 
Kennedy then studied law 
in the office of Messrs. 
Crooks, Kingsmill & Cat- 
tanach, Toronto, and entered 
at Osgoode Hall in 1862, 
and was called to the Bar 
in 1865. After practicing 
in Ottawa from 1865 until 
1872, he accepted the posi 
tion of law clerk to the 
Crown Lands Department 
of Ontario. He has been 
connected with Toronto 
University College Literary 
Society (of which he was 
oneof theoriginal members), 
and the Ottawa Literary 
and Scientific Society, of 
which he is a life member. 
He has been vice-president 
of the Canadian Institute, 
and is editor of "The Transactions." 
He has also been secretary of the 
Toronto St. Andrew s Society from the 
year 1885 to the present time, and has 
written a history of its first fifty years, 
from 1836-86. On June 6th, 1883, 
he was married to Sarah, daughter 
of the late Henry Jackson. H&lt;- was 
brought up in the Presbyterian faith, 
and attends the Bloor Street Presby 
terian Church, Toronto, but is a 1 iii- 
tariau in belief. Men of Mr. Kennedy s 
attainments are bright exam]. 
the sin. ISSlble to be secured by 

persevering effort, loiij; before the prime 
of life is reached. 


CANADA. 


35 


J\ LHXANDER YOUNG SCOTT, 
jt\ B.A., M.D., Professor of Prac- 
^ tical Biology in Trinity 
Medical College, Toronto, was born on 
October i2th, 1859, in Chesterfield, 
County of Oxford, Out. His father 
was Alexander Scott, merchant there. 
On the 6th of August, 1889, Dr. Scott 
was married to Margaret S. Ritchie, 
daughter of Hugh Ritchie, formerly of 
Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. He begun 
his preliminary education in the Strat 
ford public schools. From 1878 to 
1882 he attended Toronto University, 
where he graduated with the highest 
honors. After graduating in 1882, he 


was appointed to the position of Science 
Master in Upper Canada College, and 
while engaged teaching there, he en 
tered Trinity Medical College, and 
graduated in medicine in 1887 with 
first-class honors. In 1891 he was 
appointed Dean and Lecturer on 
Chemistry and Botany in the Ontario 
College of Pharmacy, and in the same 
year was elected manager of Deer Park 
Presbyterian Church. Dr. Scott is also 
a member of the Royal Arcanum. He 
was an officer in the North-West 
Rebellion of 1885 and took part in the 
engagements of General Middleton s 
column at Fish Creek and Batoche. 


MKX OF CANADA. 


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I )EY. JOHN G. SHEARER, B.A., 
1\ pastor of Erskine Presbyterian 
VS Church, Hamilton, Out., was 
born in Hlaudford, Oxford, on the gth 
of August, 1859, and was married to 
Aliss Lixxie Johnston, of Bnrford, Ont., 
on the Sth of August, 1883. Mr. 
Shearer was educated at Ratho public 
school, Weston High School, Branti 
Colk-iate Institute and Toronto Uni 
versity, where IK- graduated as B.A. in 
JUIK-, iSSo, with high honors in mental 
and moral scit-nci-. civil polity and 
1C. Ht- -raduaU-d in tlu-ology from 
Knox ColU-Mv, Toronto, in iSSS, Jiaving 
taken several jirixes and scholarships. 


Mr. Shearer left the farm at seventeen, 
and having obtained a second-class cer 
tificate at eighteen, began teaching 
school. In 1879, and again in 1887, in 
pursuit of better health, he spent some 
months in Europe. He was converted 
in 1883 and began his ministry at 
Onond .nt County. Subsequent 

ly his labors were much blessed in mis 
sions at Fort William. Algoma. and in 
St.John s Ward, Toronto. Mr. Shearer 

was called to Caledonia immediately on 
completing his th- .1 studies, and 

was ordained and inducted on June 5th. 

lie was unanimously called to 
Hamilton in January. 1X91. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


37 


GOLDWIN SMITH, 
M.A., LL.D. and D.C.L., To 
ronto, was born on the I3th 
of August, 1823, at Reading, England, 
where his father had been for some 
time a practicing physician. Like so 
many other distinguished Englishmen, 
he received his early education at Eton, 
which school was soon to receive added 
honors by his brilliant university course 
at Oxford. He first entered as an 
under-graduate of Christ Church, but 
on being elected to a deiuyship in Mag 
dalen he completed his course in that 
college. Two years after graduation, 
lie was offered and accepted a fellowship 
of University College, of 
which institution he became 
tutor. In 1840 he was 
called to the bar at Lin 
coln s Inn, but minds like 
his seldom find in the law a 
permanent attraction, and 
Mr. Smith was won to life 
long service to literature. 
In 1858 he was elected pro 
fessor of modern history at 
Oxford. When he visited 
America in 1864 he received 
from the Brown University 
the degree of LL.D. From 
his own university at 
Oxford he subsequently 
had conferred upon him 
the degree of D.C.L. He 
staunchly advocated the 
abolition of slavery, and 
warmly sympathi/ed with 
the North during the Civil 
war. Four years after his 
first arrival in America he 
was appointed lecturer in 
English and constitutional 
history in Cornell Univer 
sity at Ithaca, N.Y., and 
this office he still holds, al 
though for the past txvelve 
years he has been i resident 


of Toronto. In 1872 he was appointed 
a member of the Senate of Toronto 
University, was elected the representa 
tive of the public school teachers on the 
council of public instruction, and foi 
two years president of the Provincial 
Teachers Association. Since coming 
to Canada, Mr. Smith has devoted his 
time and genius to a furtherance of al! 
projects that can advance the people, 
intellectually, socially, and morally. 
He established Tlie /^nYc/Wr;-, and 
took part in establishing The Week. 
In 1875 lie married the widow of the 
late Wm. Boulton, of Toronto. As 
a master of style, he has no superior. 


MKN OF &lt;^ "ANA i .A. 


ARTLEY DEW ART, 

D. 1)., editor of the- ( In; 

(,ii(i rif !\in, Tori into, was horn 
in county Cavan, Ireland, in iSj.S, and 
was married June 25111, 1850, to Miss 

Matilda Hunt, of Hamilton. When he 
was six years old, he canie with his 
parents to Canada, the family settling 
in Peterboro county, Ontario. Educa 
tional advantages at that time were few, 
but voting Dewart was a persistent 
student. In 1847 he became a student 
of the Normal School, and afterwards 
taught school, and, in coming back for 
another session, assisted the professors 
in teaching. In 1851 he was called to 


the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church, of which he had been a mem 
ber sin . His ministerial labors 
commenced in St. Thomas circuit, he- 
then travelled for one year each in 1 ort 
Hope and Thorold circuits. On the 
completion of his probation he was 
stationed in I&gt;nndas, then in 1856 as 
superintendent of St. Andrew s circuit 
on the Ottawa River, then on the 
Odclltown circuit, and in 1860 in Mont 
real West. Owing to enfeebled health, 
resulting from overwork, he was com 
pelled to retire for nearly a year. Re 
stored to health, he was for three years 
superintendent of the St. John s cir 
cuit, and afterwards sta 
tioned at Collingwood, 
Toronto, and Ingersoll. In 
1869 he was elected editor 
of the Christian Guardian, 
a. position which he has 
filled for over twenty-one 
years with marked ability. 
At the late General Confer 
ence he was re-elected for 
another term. In 1873 Dr. 
Dewart was a delegate to 
the English Wesleyan Con 
ference, and in 1881 to the 
Ecumenical Methodist Con 
ference held in London, 
England. He was presi 
dent of the Toronto Confer 
ence in 18X3, and of the 
Canadian Press Association 
in 1889, and a delegate to 
the Methodist Ecumenical 
Conference of 1891. Not 
withstanding the large 
amount of church work and 
tonal duties devolving 
upon him, he has don- 

of enduring work 
with his pen, in prose and 
verse. He i-. a \igorous 
writer, a powerful debate . 
and an ab!&gt; her. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


39 


FRANKLIN LAZIER, Q.C., 
Hamilton, Ont., was born in Picton, 
Prince Edward Count}-, Ont., on the ist of 
July, 1841, and is descended from a U.E. 
Loyalist. He was married on the 22nd August, 
1871 to Alice Maud Mary, eldest daughter of 
Joseph Lister, Hamilton. He was educated at 
the public and private schools, and entered 
Victoria College when 14 years of age, and 
graduated B.A. at 18. Afterwards he obtained 
the degrees of LL.B. and M.A. He entered the 
profession of law at 18, became attorney at 21, 
and barrister at 22. In 1890 he was appointed 
Q.C. by both the Ontario and Dominion Govern 
ments. Mr. Lazier has been leader and trustee 
in the Centenary Methodist Church, Hamilton, 
and member of two General Conferences. He is 
Past Master of Temple Lodge of A.F. and A. 
Masons, has been trustee and chairman of the 
Board of Education, is a director of the V.M. 
C.A., director of the Grimsby Park Association, 
and president of the Hamilton Bible Society. 
In all good works Mr. Lazier occupies a 
foremost place, and he is extending his 
influence as the years go by. 


KJ-;v. K. 


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* HE/ 


S. FkA.NKI.lN I.AZIKK. 


EV. RICHARD HARRISON. M A.. 
rector of St. Matthias Church, Toronto, 
was born in that city February 25th, 
His father was Richard Harrison, for 
of Skegarvey, County of Monaghan, 
Ireland. He was educated at Trinity University, 
where he graduated in 1861, taking high class 
honors, in classics and mathematics. He re 
ceived the degree of M.A. in 1864, was ordained 
deacon in the Church of England in 1865, and 
priest in 1866. In 1867 he was appointed as 
sistant curate at St. George s, Toronto, and in 
18(17 went to England, and became assistant 
curate of the Anglican Church at Stratton, St. 
Margaret s. Returning to Canada in 1868, he 
became missionary successively at Beverley, 
Woodbridge and Vaughan, where he remained 
five years. In 1873 lie came to Toronto and 
took charge of the mission parish of St. Matthias 
-since the "mother" of several churches. In 
1877 he was delegate to the Provincial Synod at 
Montreal. Mr. Harrison was married to Cealia 
Maria, daughter of William Leslie, of Puslinch, 
Out., in 1870. He wrote "The British Catholic 
Church " and other tractates. 


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I 


NORMAN BETHCNE, M.D. 


IVfoRMAN BETHUNE, M.D., M.R.C.S.. 
Q^S London, andF.R.C.S., Edinburgh, prac 

ticing physician, Toronto, was born August 
1 3th, 1822, at Moose Factory, Hudson s Bay. 
In 1851 he married Janet Nicolson, of Edin 
burgh, Scotland. His eldest son was drowned 
by the foundering of the State of Florida in 
.. His youngest son is in the ministry of 
the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Bethune was 
educated by his uncle, the Rev. Alexander 
X. Bethune, mtur of Colxmrg, and latterly 
Bishop of Toronto, in Cobourg, and at Upper 
Canada College. In 1842 he entered King s 
College, now Toronto University, and graduated in 
i s , s. IK- then attended King s College Medical 
School, and in 1X46 went to England and studied 
at Kin nd Guy s Hospital. In 1848 

he received the diploma of M.R.C.S. London, and 
in 1X50 the degree of M.U. from Edinburgh. He 
then returned to Canada, and has been a teacher 
in Toronto School of Medicine and Victoria t. 
lege, and is t! survivor of the original 

members of the faculty of Trinity Medical School 
Dr. Hethune is a member of the 1 resbytcrian 
Church and a Royal Arch Mason. 


cin-:\i-:v WKDKTT. su]*ranmi- 

ated Methodist minister of Ridgetown, 

&lt; tut., was horn on May is: 
England. IK- \&lt;-~l his parents j n V ery early life, 
and was left entirely to his own unaided 
tions, not only to gain a livelihood, but to pro 
cure his education. Notwithstanding, however, 
all these drawbacks, by diligence, IHTSI-VC: 
and force of character, he acquired solid attain 
ments in the departments of s.-k-nce. theology, 
ecclesiastical history, and other departme: 
study. During the thirty-three years of his 
active ministry he was the stationed superinten 
dent of eighteen different circuits. Mr. Burd. tt 
is an exceedingly forcible speaker, and has been 
unusually successful in revival services, and in 
the great camp meetings of former years in 
Canada. He was married on May 2nd, i 
to Nancy Rouse, who died in 1881, leaving four 
children, one of whom is Mrs. Dr. Brien. of the 
County of Essex, and afterwards was married 
to Mrs. Emily McTavish, on November I4th, 
&gt;2. Men of Mr. Burdett s stamp have 
done much to mould the moral and reli 
gious life of this country. 


MEN OP CANADA. 


V. JOHN KAY, pastor of Wel- 
lington Street Methodist 

S&gt; Church, Brantford, was born 
in Napanee, Out., on the aoth May, 
1838. His father was from Ireland 
and his mother a native of England. 
His father studied for some years in 
preparation for the ministry, hut did 
not complete his course. He was an 
excellent public speaker. He followed 
the lumber business in the village of 
Newburgh, where young Kay received 
the rudiments of his education. When 
he had scarcely reached his fourteenth 
year, his father died, leaving a widow 
and three children, of whom the sub 


ject of our sketch was the 
oldest. The family shortly 
afterwards left Newburgh 
and settled in Camborne, 
in the vicinity of Cobourg. 
Here he consecrated himself 
to the church and became a 
local preacher, prosecuting, 
while still engaged in other 
business, his studies in pre 
paration for the ministry. 
In 1862 he was received into 
the Conference and was ap 
pointed to assist the Rev. 
S. B. Gundy in St. Mary s. 
He made satisfactorv pro 
gress in his literary curri 
culum, taking also a course 
in philosophy and theology 
under the late Rev. Wm. 
McClure. Mr. Kay has, 
since his ordination, been 
stationed in Ingersoll ( twice) , 
Milton, Waterdown, Tilson- 
burg, London, Waterford, 
Thorold, Hamilton and 
Brantford, where he has 
entered upon his third year. 
He has occupied important 
positions, such as secretary 
of the Conference, chairman 
of Districts, was representa 
tive to the General Conference in 
Toronto in 1886, in Montreal in 1890, 
and president of the Niagara Confer 
ence in 1890. He has always been a 
strong friend of the temperance move 
ment, and has been a member of the Sous 
of Temperance, the Good Templars and 
Ro3 r al Templars. In theology he is 
progressive, yet conservative. In 1871 
he published an interesting biographv 
of his father-in-law, the Rev. W. Gundy, 
and has on several occasions contri 
buted to periodical literature. He also 
takes a lively interest in educational 
matters, and in everything pertaining 
to the welfare of his native land. 


MI:X OK CANADA. 


:v. B. F. ATSTIN, 

M. A., B.I)., Principal 
^i of Alma Ladies 
Colli gc, St. Thomas, was 

born on September 21, 1X50, 

in the township of Bright 

County of Northumberland, 

and was married on the ibth 

June, iSSi, to Miss I-Yaii 

Amanda Council. Mr. Aus 
tin was educated at Albert 

I liiversity, Belleville, hav 
ing his preparatory training 
the Brighton grammar 

and common schools. At 

the ai^e of sixteen he began 

teaching in the township of 

Brighton, where he remain 
ed three and a half }-ears. 

In 1871 he entered the 
ministry of the M. E. 
Church, and was ordained 
in 1877. During his atten 
dance at the tiniversit3", 
he edited the Temperance 
( niini, and in vacation 
time lectured and organized 
lodges. He graduated B.A. 
in 1X77 and B.D. in 1881, 
preached a year in the 
Brighton circuit, a. year in 
Frankford circuit, one 3 r ear 
each in Cobourg and Ottawa, three 
rs in Prescott, and then went to the 
Metropolitan Church in Ottawa, from 
which, after a three mouths pastorate, 
he was taken to his present position in 
Alma College. Since that date (1881), 
he has, with singular ability and success, 
promoted the interests of this iniportau* 
institution. Mr. Austin has been busy 
with his pen for many years. In 1879 
he published a volume of sermons by 
oils ministers, under the title of 
"The M. I-!. Pulpit," the profit- 

n for mission purposes. In i 
he published a small volume, entitled 
: ns of the Times;" in 1884, " The 


Gospel to the Poor z&gt;s. Pew Rents ;" in 
1889, a pamphlet on "The Jesuits," 
which has already run through four 
editions ; and in the same year he 

ed a handsome volume, entitled 
Woman : Her Character, Culture and 
Calling." Mr. Austin is much sought 
after for the platform and pulpit, and 
renders valuable service to churcln 
his own and other denominations. IK- 

. strong advocate of union between 
the Kvangclical churches, and a promi 
nent member of the Kqual Rights 

tty, ill its efforts to spread sonr.d 
Protestant doctrines and thwart Romish 
aggression. 


MEN OF CANAIDA. 


43 


. WM. BRIGGS, D. p., who 
lias recently been unanimously 
^&gt; elected for the fourth time 
as Book Steward of the Methodist 
Church, is a native of the Emerald 
Isle. His parents were members of the 
Wesleyun Church. When about six 
years old he was taken to Liverpool, 
where he received his early education, 
being for some time under the training 
of the celebrated Dean Howson. His 
diligence as a student gave promise of 
great usefulness in the future. In 
early boyhood he professed the faith of 
his parents and soon began to exercise 
his gifts. Eventually his name ap 
peared on the local preach 
ers list in the Liverpool 
circuit. In 1859 he was 
called to the ministry, and 
introduced to the \Vesleyan 
Conference in Canada by 
the president, the late Rev. 
Dr. Stinson. Commencing 
his ministry in the province 
of Quebec he came west 
ward to such important 
centres as Montreal, Belle 
ville, Cobourg, Toronto, 
London, and Hamilton, in 
some of which he was 
stationed more than one 
term. He has also been 
chairman of districts and 
president of the Toronto 
Conference. Dr. Briggs 
early business training has 
been of immense benefit to 
him in his present position. 
Under his management the 
book room has become the 
largest publishing house in 
the Dominion. For well 
nigh half a century its head 
quarters were in King 
street, Toronto, until in 
creasing business demanded 
greater space. Now Wes 


ley buildings is one of the attrac 
tions of the Queen City of the West. 
In addition to his business engage 
ments, Dr. Briggs preaches nearly 
every Sabbath in some part of Canada, 
and his pulpit ministrations, fresh and 
vigorous, are eagerly sought after. He 
is a man always ready to help in every 
good cause, who has the courage of his 
convictions, and is respected for his 
manly independence. Rarely do we 
find combined in one man such power 
to grasp the details of a large business, 
and at the same time, a pulpit eloquence 
which thrills the large audiences that 
constantly greet him. 


44 


\l I:N &lt; &gt;i- CAN A: &gt;A 


WILLIAM PEARCEHOW- 
_ A. LAND, C.B., K.C.M.G., T* 

ronto, is of F.njjish di.-si.x-iU, liis 
ierican progenitor being one John 
1 lowland, a Ouakcr, who emigrated 
with tin.- hand of pilgrims who landed 
on "the bleak NYw Knglaml six.: 
in 1(5.20. He is a native of Pud 

:m\, New York, and was born in the 
town of Paulinas zgth of May, iSii. 
lie was educated at the Kinderhook 
Acadeinj*, and came to Canada in 1830, 
settling in the township of Toronto and 
eiu in business in partnership 

with his brother. In 1840 he purchased 
the Lambton Mills, and soon after en- 


ed in the wholesale grocery trade 

in Toronto. He is now extensively cii- 

-d in the milling business at several 

points in the provin&lt; r \\ illiain 

been an influential member of the 

into I .oard of Trade, and its ]&gt;r 

dent for se\eral years. Jle is also 

ideiit of the Ontario llauk, the 

Anchor Marine Insurance Coni])anv, 

the London and Canadian Loan and 

ency Company, the Ontario S 
for the Prevention of Cruelty t&lt;&gt; .\nim- 
als, and the Confederation Life Associa 
tion of Canada. He was a member of 
the executive council, July ist, 
was sworn in one of the Privy Council 
and became Minister ol 
land Revenue, holding that 
position until July, 1868, 
when he was appointed 
Lieutenant-Governor of Ou- 
tario. From 1857 to 1868 
he represented the consti 
tuency of West York. I It- 
has at different times been 
minister of finance, receiv 
er-general , postmaster-gen 
eral, a member of the Privy 
Council, a commissioner to 
visit Washington, and to 
the London Conference 
1866-67, an d in J 873 filled 
the position of Lieutenant- 
Governor of Ontario. Her 
Majesty created him C.B. in 
July, 1867, and in May, 
1879, conferred upon him 
the order of Knighthood. 
Sir William has been tu in- 
married, first in i s n to 
Mrs. Webb, "who died in 
1859; again in iSoo to the 
widow of the late Captain 
Hunt. He is modest and 
unassuming in deposition, 
honorable in the hijj: 

and po- the in 

stincts of a true gentleman. 


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45 


/CHARLES O REILLY, M.D., 
L "" C.M., (McGill College), Medical 
^ ^"&gt; Superintendent of Toronto 
General Hospital, was born in Hamil 
ton, Out., i gth of June, 1846. He is 
the eldest son of the late Gerald 
O Reilly, M.D., L.R.C.S.I., of Ballin- 
lough, County Meath, Ireland, and a 
descendant of the ancient familv of 
Brefney O Reilly, A.D. 6n. Dr. 
O Reilh was educated in Hamilton at 
private schools, and, in 1863, matricu 
lated at McGill, where he passed 
through the regular curriculum of four 
years for the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine and Master of Surgery. As 


he was not of age when he 
finished he did not receive 
his diploma until he attain 
ed his majority, when he 
was unanimously appointed 
Resident Physician of the 
Hamilton City Hospital. 
He held this position from 
1867 to 1876, when he re 
moved to Toronto. In 1 868 
he was gazetted Assistant 
Surgeon of the i3th Batta 
lion, Hamilton, and in 1870 
was elected secretary and 
treasurer of the Hamilton 
Medical and Surgical So 
ciety, the duties of which 
office he performed for years. 
His recognised medical skill 
and experience in hospital 
management then led to his 
appointment as Medical 
Superintendent of the To 
ronto General Hospital. On 
leaving his native city, Dr. 
O Reilly was the recipient 
of many flattering testi 
monials. During his con 
nection with the Toronto 
Hospital many important 
additions have been made. 
He is now Clinical Examiner 
in Surgery for both the Medical Coun 
cil of Ontario and the University of 
Toronto, and is also Examiner in Sur 
gery of Trinity. In 1890 he received 
the honorary ad finnicm degree of M.D. 
from Trinity University in recognition 
of his services on behalf of practical 
medical education. In 1876 he was 
married to Sophia, youngest daughter 
of the late George Rolph, barrister, 
Dundas, and neice of Hon. John Rolph, 
M.D., Toronto. Dr. O Reilly has three 
brothers Dr. Gerald O Reilly, of 
Fergus, Dr. E. B. O Reilly, of Hamil 
ton, and Mr. H. H. O Reilly, agent of 
the Bank of Hamilton, Owen Sound. 


Mix 


CAN \i . \. 


\\ 


"M. THKoPim,rs 


STUART, M.D., 

practicing physician, To 
ronto, ( )nl., son of tin.- late 
Rev. JaiiK-s Stuart, Prcsbv- 
:an clergyman, was horn 
on the- i.uh of May, r 
at Markliain, ( hitarin. I &gt;r. 
Stuart was educated at the 
Urantford Collegiate lusti 
tute and Upper Canada C 
lege, and in iS;;, entered 
Trinity Medical College, 
where he graduated with 
honors in 1X77. At the 
same time he took the Starr 
gold medal, the I uiversity 
in Toronto Uni 
versity, and the University 
gold medal in Trinity 
University, and also stood 
highest in his class for the 
faculty gold medal in the 
latter University. In 1879 
he made a lengthened visit 
to Europe and studied in 
the hospitals of Dublin, 
Kdinlmrgh and London. 
For some years past he has 
spent several months each 
summer in the hospitals 
and post graduate medical 
schools in New York, devoting special 
attention to diseases of the skin and 
the kidneys. Immediately after gradu 
ation, I &gt;r. Stuart was appointed Pro- 
f Practical Chemistry in Trinity 
Medical College, Toronto, and is now 

1 ieneral Chem 
istry. In iSjS he was appointed 1 

if Anatomy and Physiology in 
the Royal College of I teiital Surgeons. 
Ontario, and in i.S-q was appointed 
Pr .if Chemistry, which pn 

-hip he still holds. Dr. Stuart took 
a certificate from the Toronto Military 
School under Colonel Dciiison, and still 
takes a dee]) interest in military affairs. 


*In his youth he was an adherent &lt;&gt;t 
Zion Presbyterian Church, Hrantford, 
(Rev. Dr. Cochrane sl and is now a 
member of St. Andrew s Presbyterian 
Church, Toronto. He is married to 
Margaret B. Gibson, daughter of the 
late Rev. Hamilton Gibson, Presby 
terian clergyman. His brother, the 
late Rev. J. I.. Stuart, of Trent. m, 
Ontario, (who died in the Southern 
Statesi.was celebrated for his literary 
and poetical productions, and his 
surviving brother, Rev. J. (i. Stuart. 
is now the successful minister of 
St. Mark s Presbyterian Church in 
Toronto. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


47 


IICHARD CADDICK, solicitor 
and attorney-at-law, Toronto, 
was born 23rd November, 
1833, at Westbromwich, Eng. His 
father was Richard Caddick, coal master 
and corn merchant there. He was 
married February i3th, 1869, to Eliza 
beth, daughter of Win. Howe, Norfolk, 
Eng. Air. Caddick was educated at 
Mackworth College, Derbyshire, and 
Sheffield Wesleyan College, Eng. In 
1859 he began study of law with his 
uncle, Elisha Caddick, of Westbrom 
wich, and afterwards studied with the 
great Joshua Williams in London, and 
was admitted as a member of the Law 


Society of England in 1856. He was 
commissioner and guardian of the poor 
of the Union in his native town, and 
for years carried on a large practice. 
In 1868, on account of ill-heath, he 
came to Canada, and in 1870 entered 
the law office of Blake, Kerr & Cassels, 
Toronto, and was admitted to practice 
in 1872. Mr. Caddick is a member of 
the Methodist Church, and takes an 
active part in denominational matters, 
having filled many important offices, 
He has been for many years an inde 
fatigable worker in the Sons of Eng 
land Benevolent Society, and was elect 
ed in 1879 Supreme Grand President. 


4 


MKX OF C ANA I. A. 


MOFFATT HAY." 

M.D., practicing ph) sician, of 
Toronto, Out., was born on the ist 

of October, 1*57, in Wellington County, 
( )nt., and is the son of the late Robert 
, of Marylxiro. In 1887 he was 
married t, Carrie Ogden, daughter of 
I)r. \V. \\ . Ogden, professor in the 
University of Toronto, whose biography 
appears elsewhere in these pa^es. Dr. 
Hay was educated at Listowel, (inelph 
and St. Catharines Collegiate Institutes. 
In iSSi he entered the Toronto School 
of Medicine and graduated in i 
from Victoria 1 niversity. He then 
went to Europe and studied in the 


hospitals of Edinburgh and London. 
receiving the degree of I..S.A. from 
London, Eng. After this he returned 
to Toronto and began the practice &gt;&lt;\ 
his profession. Although still a young 
man, he has gained the confidence of 
the medical profession to a very la 
extent, and has reached his present 
position by well recoyiii/ed ability and 
indomitable effort. l)r. Hay is a nieiii- 
of (Jueeii Street Methodist Church, 
Toronto, a member of the official board 
of that congregation, and takes an 
active int. rest in all good works con 
nected with his church. H&lt;- is also a 
member of various fraternal socit 


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CANADA. 


49 


J 


OHN HAGUE, Fellow of the Royal 
Statistical Society, England, was born 
at Rotherham, Yorkshire, in 1829, 
where he was educated at the Grammar School, 
and engaged some years in a local bank. Mr 
Hague helped to start the Sheffield I rcc Press, 
for which he wrote many editorials. At the age 
of twenty-two he left business in order to prepare 
for Oxford, and read two years with Dr. Moore- 
house, now Bishop of Manchester. He won a 
scholarship, but being beyond the statutory age, 
he went back to business as sub-manager of a 
private bank near Wolverhampton. He has 
been delegate to Ruri-Decimal Conferences and 
Diocesan Synods of the Church of England, and 
has ever been an enthusiastic supporter of social 
reforms, universal education, and all efforts to 
ameliorate the lot of the poor. He came to 
Canada in 1871, and since then has contributed 
largely to the press of the Dominion on finance and 
social topics, and is the author of well-known 
pamphlets. Mr. Hague founded the Philhar 
monic Society and the Order of Foresters 
in Toronto, of which he was many years 
the moving spirit. 


JOSEPH HARGROVE. 


J 


JOHN HA(. civ. 


OSEPH HARGROVE, Hamilton, Ont., 
was born December 24th, 1830, near 
Maryborough, Queen s County, Ire 
land. He was educated at Maryborough and 
worked with his father sixteen years on the 
farm. He then joined the British army, enlist 
ing in the Third or Prince of Wales Royal 
Dragoon Guards, where he remained four years 
and one-half. Having purchased his discharge, 
he married Mary, daughter of the late William 
Mills, County Carlow, Ireland, and grand 
daughter of the late John Millbank, of Tnolle, 
County Carlow. He then entered the wholesale 
shipping house of Kennedy, Sholes & Co., and, 
after two years, took the management of the 
shipping department of William Graham ,Sc Co., 
Manchester, Eng. After remaining in this posi 
tion five years, he came to Hamilton in iS6; v 
and has remained there ever since, having been 
for the past five years manager of the Singer 
Manufacturing Company in that city. Mi. 
Hargrove was brought up an Anglican, but is 
now a Methodist. He is a number of the Masonic- 
body, is a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar, 
and in politics is an active Conservative. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


THOMAS V GKAKINC. 


IloMAS VERNON GEARING, Toronto, 
was born January ijth, 1853, at Llanga- 
dock, Caermarthanshire, South Wales. He was 
educated in the National schools of England, and 
b^gan life as a telegraph operator in the Great 
Western Railway. In 1870 his uncle, Joseph 
Gearing, contractor, Toronto, when on a visit 
to England persuaded him of the great advan 
tages offered young men in Canada, to which he 
came in 1871, and entered his uncle s enipTbv- 
ment as a carpenter. In 1880 he began as a 
builder and contractor, and has built many of 
the finest blocks and dwellings in Toronto, 
among which may be mentioned the Medical 
Hall on Bay street. Mr. Gearing is a member of 
the Anglican Church. He also belongs to the 
nic brotherhood, is Past Grand Master of 
the Canadian Order of Odd Fellows, member of 
the Select Knights of the A.O.U.W., of the 
land Society, and other organi/a- 
In ]&gt;olitics he is a Conservative. In 
May, iSSj, he married Miss Mary France-. I&gt;o\v 
/ard, of Toronto. He stands high in his line of 
busin 


THOMAS HKNHKKSON. I..D.S.. D.D.S., 

1 Toronto. Out., was horn on l- ebruary 
2;th, iX.s.v in York County, Ontario, and is the 
fourth son of Robert and l ; r:mces Watsmi Hcii- 
When t\v Id he moved with his 

parents to a t.inn in Artemeria Township, County 
drey, where he spent his youthful da\s. ] &gt;r. 
Henderson received his education in the public 
\a and Collegiate Institutes of ( Mitario. At 
irly age of eighteen he began teaching, and 
taught for nine years, during a portion of which 
time he was the successful head master of Alli- 
ston public school. In 1881 he entered the Royal 
College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and 
graduated with honors in March, 1883, receiving 
the college gold medal for theory and practical 
work. The degree of L.D.S. was also given him, 
and in 1889 the degree of D.D.S. was coin 
upon him by Toronto University. Dr. Hender 
son is a member of Sherlxnirne Street Methodist 
Church, a member of the I.O.O.F., the S 
of Foresters, the Ancient Order of United Work 
men, and other societies. With his pro 
fessional attainments, it may be taken for 
granted that he has a large pract: 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


YX/ILLIAM MAGILL, Toronto, 
r r Ont., was born in Dublin, 
Ireland, on the 8th of February, 1823, 
his father, John Magill, being a 
resident of that city. He was married 
on the 2 ist of January, 1862, to Char 
lotte Ballard, daughter of the Rev. 
Thomas Ballard, Wesleyan minister. 
Mr. Magill received his early education 
in Dublin, and served four years in the 
study of civil engineering. At the age 
of twenty he began his career as a 
teacher, having graduated from the 
Dublin Normal School, and taught for 
seven years. During that period he 
was offered a position in one of the 


Normal Schools. After this he be 
came the manager of estates, continu 
ing thirteen years in that occupation. 
In 1866 he came to Canada and settled 
in Toronto. After a time he took 
charge of the Academy, formerly con 
ducted by the Rev. Alex. Williams, 
M.A. In 1871 he removed his estab 
lishment to Simcoe street, where he 
opened a boarding and day school, and 
gave himself exclusively to the train 
ing of boys for the higher walks of 
professional life, and preparing them 
for the entrance examinations to the 
different colleges. Many hundreds of 
the chief business men of Toronto 
were trained in Mr. Ma- 
gill s school, and no man is 
more favorably known. In 
Mr. Magill s day the faci 
lities for higher education, 
now provided, were not 
within the reach of young 
Canadians, and, in the 
opinion of some, it is still 
held that the individual 
training of boys in such 
schools was superior to what 
is now received in many 
cases in government insti 
tutions. While the classes 
were not so large, and the 
competition, possibly, not 
so great, there was the ad 
vantage of individual con 
tact between master and 
pupil for a longer period 
than at the present day. 
In his professional work 
Mr. Magill has been ably 
assisted by his wife as 
teacher of French, music, 
drawing, English literature, 
etc. Mr. Magill is a 
member of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and 
also of various benevolent 
societies. 


MEN OP CANADA. 


"OHX IAM1 

t.C.L., iMcr.ilh, LL.I)., (Vfe- 


MACLAREN, 


JOH: 
i) 
torial, and &lt;J.C.. Toronto, was 
born near I, admit.-, Oucbec, July ist, 
1X42. His parents came from IVrth- 
shire, Scotland. His father died in 
;-, when his mother removed to 
Huntingdon, where her son was edu 
cated prior to entering Victoria Coll. 

MHirg, where lie took the Prince of 
\Valcs gold medal. He received the 
decree of H.A. ill lS6&gt;, M.A. ill 1866, 

and LL-B. in iS6S. He was secretary 
of the British and American Joint Com 
mission in iSbj-g under the Treaty of 
1863 to settle the Oregon claims. He 
was called to the Bar of 
Lower Canada in 1868, and 
in 1878 appointed Q.C. He 
practiced for some years in 
Montreal, being senior part 
ner of Maclaren, Leet, 
Smith & Smith. In 1884 
he removed to Toronto. For 
years he has been a leading 
counsel at the Bar. Among 
the famous cases in which 
he has been engaged are 
The Oka Indian Trials," 
" The winding up of the 
Mechanics Bank," " The 
Allan- Witness Libel Case," 
and those connected with 
" The Commercial Travel 
lers Association," " The de 
fence of the Canada Tem 
perance Act," which he 
finally won in the Privy 
Council. In contested elec 
tion cases he is frequently 
retained. He had charge 
of the legislation ratifying 
the union ot the Methodist 
churches in iSS.j, and has 
been legal adviser of the 
Tinted Church (of which 
he is an honored member) 
ever since. He is at present 


leading counsel for the Ifnil in the 
Jesuit case, and head of the firm of 
Maclaren, Macdoiiald, Merritt & Shep- 
ley, Toronto, which has nine partners 
and a staff of over v &gt;. Mr. Maclaren 
has been a member of all the great 
Methodist and Ivcnmeiiical Confercii 
and is a trustee, local preacher and 
Bible-class teacher of the Metropolitan 
Church, Toronto. He is honorary 
Law Lecturer in Toronto I nn-ersitv. 
trustee of Upper Canada College, and 
trustee and director of the Toronto 
Y.M.C.A. He has written several 
valuable works connected with his pro 
fession. 


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53 


TV LEX. ANTHONY DAME, M.D., 

JZ~A C.M., Toronto, was born in 
^^ North Marysburgh, Prince 
Edward County, Out., on the 9th of 
July, 1X46. His father was Allan 
Me. Dame, C.E., grandson of Colonel 
John F. Dame, of the British army, 
and cousin of Col. A. John McDonald, 
aide-de-camp to General Brock. His 
mother was Mary A. Smith. He was 
married on the 25th of January, 1877, 
to Mary A. Davis, daughter of N. H. 
Davis, of Hamilton, who died in iSSi, 
leaving one son, Allan Davis Dame, 
who still survives her. Dr. Dame was 
educated in the public and private 


schools, and at the earl} age of seven 
teen years began teaching. He entered 
the Royal Military College at King 
ston and graduated in 1866. During 
the Fenian Invasion he was in command 
of one of the companies at the frontier. 
After this he entered the Royal Medical 
College of Queen s University, King 
ston, and graduated with honors, receiv 
ing a gold medal as a special reward of 
merit. After graduating he began his 
profession in Lincoln County, and, in 
iSSt), removed to Toronto, where he 
enjoys a large and lucrative practice. 
Dr. Dame has been a member of the 
Masonic body since 1872. 


MKN &lt;&gt;i CANADA. 


! 


- JAMES CRAIG TOLMIE, 
I astorof the First Presbyterian 
s Cliurch, Brantford, Out., was 
born ( K-tobcr 8th, 1862, at Innerkip, 

mty of &lt; &gt;xfonl, ( hit. He is the son 
of the Rev. A. Tolmie, who, for the last 
twenty-seven years, has been pastor of 
the Southampton Presbyterian Church. 
He obtained his education at Southamp 
ton, the Toronto Collegiate Institute, 
Toronto I liiversity College, and Knox 
College. He took both the arts and 
law course in Toronto University, 

.duated in iSSq with fr 
honors in mental and moral philosophy, 
civil polity and logic. lie held the 


othce of president of Knox College 
Metaphysical and Literary Society. 
Mr. Tolmie did very successful work 
as a missionary in various fields. In 
the summer of iSS; he was assistant 
to I)r. Smellie in Fergus, and in iSSS 

istant to J. A. Murray, of St. An 
drews, London, (hit. During the time 
he was assisting in the above-mentioned 
fields, he received many desirable calls, 
among others, one from the l ; ir-t Pres 
byterian Church. Hrantford, which he 

-pled, and was ordained and inducted 
on tin \pril. iSSi), in which 

church he continues to preach with 
great acceptability. 


MEN OF" C AX ADA. 


55 


"VVflLLIAM WHITE MILLER, postmaster, 
\ \ Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, was 
born in County Cavin, Ireland, August 8th, 
1846. In his youth he came with his parents to 
Canada and settled at Teviotdale, County of 
Wellington, where he attended the public school, 
and afterwards assisted his father in the store, 
till he was 25 years of age. He began business 
for himself in 1871, sold out in 1877 and came 
to Manitoba, where he accepted a position with 
J. A. K. Drummond at High Bluff. Two years 
afterwards he entered the house of Campbell & 
Marlatt, Portage la Prairie, and in 1879 was ap 
pointed postmaster of the town. Mr. Miller is a 
Presbyterian, and has held such offices as Elder, 
superintendent of Sabbath School, treasurer of 
Knox Church Presbytery, and Synod Convener 
of Sabbath School committees. He was treasurer 
of the county four years, and is now president 
of the Y.M.C.A., member of School Board, 
director and treasurer of Lansdowne College, 
and president of the Bible Society. He was 
married on the ijth of March, 1872, to Annie, 
daughter of the Revd. N. Brown, of Listowel, 
Ontario. 


RKV. JOHN KI.I.IS I.ANCKI.l .V. 


\VM. W1IIT1-: MII.I.KK. 


. JOHN ELLIS LANCKLKY. 
Toronto, was born at Birkenhead, 
:S England, loth January, 1X48, 
and married on September 27th, 1877, 
to Caroline Eli/a Ward, of Niagara Kails. 
He came with his father to Canada when eight 
years old, and received his education at the 
public schools and Victoria College, Cobourg. 
At the age of twenty-two he entered the Methodist 
ministry. Prior to ordination he spent his time 
at Plattsville, Aurora, Chatham and Dundas. In 
1874, at Hamilton, he was ordained. He has 
served the church at Guclph, Niagara Kails, Lon 
don, St. Thomas, Dunnville. Burlington, Thorold 
and Toronto. While in the Niagara Conference 
he was journal secretary, missionary secretary, 
member of the examining board in theology, also 
a member of the General Conference in iSS6. He 
is now a member of the Toronto Conference and 
is financial secretary of the Toronto West dis 
trict. He has given considerable time to the 
lecture platform, is popular and faithful as ,i 
preacher and pastor, full of wit and repartee in 
debate, beloved by his brethren, and resjK Cted 
by all who know him. 


MK.N ( -I ^ \N.\I . A. 


185.). 


Kl V CHAKI.|.&gt; T. 


t. CHARLES TAGGART SCOTT, 
West Lome, Ont., was born on the 
^S- 22nd of June, 1860, in the village 
of Stouffeville, in the County of York. His 
father was William Scott, a well known 
carriage builder in Milton, Ont. His father 
died when he was nine years of age, but he was 
carefully trained by an exemplary Christian 
mother, to whom he owes much for his religious 
training and the influences that led him" to 
choose the sacred ministry. He received his 
(/duration at McGill College, Montreal, and 
Victoria University, Cobourg. In the year 1881 
lie .nti red the ministry of the Canada Methodist 
Church, and was ordained in June, i.S.Sj, since 
that time he has filled but two appointments 
Knniskillen and West Lome, both in connection 
with the London Conference. Mr. Scott was 
married on September 6th, 1887, to Minnie 
May White, third daughter of Stephen White. 
Chatham, Out. He i- .me of the rising men 
in the Methodist Church, and is greatly beloved 
U who have formed his ac&lt;|uaintunce. Me 
-ives promise of great usefulness to the cause he 
loves so well and so ably represents. 


-^T^ICHAKD C, NK -I.. UV.HI. IX, L.D.S., 
l\ I). U.S.. Dental Surgeon. Toronto, \\a-~ 
V^S l&gt;orn in the County of IVel. Ont. in 
He is the sou of Joseph and KaU-lla 
. comini; of Scotch and Irish parent 
Dr. M. I.anghlin \va- educated in the 
public school- of Ontario, and received his sub- 
unit training at the Hramptoii Collegiate Insti 
tute. Fur some years he \\.i-- eii^a^cd as a teachel 
ill the public schools of ( hitario, and in isss en 
tered the Normal School, Toronto, where In- 
completed his studies, taking first-class honors 
In the following year he began the study of den 
tistry in the Royal College of Dental Surgeons 
of Ontario, and graduated with honors in the 
spring of 1889. In the same year he was granted 
the degree of D.D.S. by the Toronto University, 
and at once began the practice of his profession 
in Toronto. At the inauguration of the Toronto 
Dental Society in 1890, Dr. McLaughlin was 
chosen as its first president. He is one of the 
rising professional young men of the city of 
Toronto, and occupies a prominent place 
in the dental profession. He has all the 
qualities for a successful career. 


11 I.I N. 


MEN OP CANADA. 


57 


THE LATE JACOB DANIELS, 
**- whose portrait appears on this 
page, was born in Blenheim Township, 
Oxford County, Out., on December gth, 
1834, and died September i8th, 1890. 
He was married in the year 1854 to 
Ellen Moore, who, with one son 
and two daughters, survive him. He 
learned the business of a saddler and 
harness maker at Dundas and became 
an expert workman. After his mar 
riage he started business for himself at 
Drumbo in the year 1855, and carried 
it on with growing success for eleven 
years. He then lost all he had thnnigh 
fire, but with unbounded energy and 


good credit started business again. In 
the year 1867 he moved to the city of 
Brantford and commenced business 
there, and from that time to the da}- of 
his death, was one of the steady, up 
right, much esteemed, and successful 
business men of the city. Mr. 
Daniels was converted in a revival 
meeting and joined the Methodist 
Church while at Drumbo early in 
his married life. He became an 
earnest Christian man, erected the 
family altar, on which he never per 
mitted the fires to cease burning until 
he was called hence. He took a 
prominent part in church matters 
from the beginning, and, on 
^^^^ his removal to Brantford, 
he joined the Wellington 
Street Methodist Church. 
He was trustee, class leader 
and steward for many years, 
a right hand man to the 
various pastors, and a pillar 
in the church. He was 
always at his post of duty, 
and by his sterling, un 
ostentatious piety, made 
friends of all the members 
of the church and congre 
gation. In his death the 
city of Brantford has lost 
one of its oldest and most 
respected business men, 
and the "Wellington Street 
Methodist Church one of 
its efficient officials and 
most exemplary members, 
while the cause of Christ 
on earth is deprived of the 
example and work of a 
true man. It is to be de 
voutly hoped that his 
mantle will fall upon his 
son Arthur, who is now 
conducting the business so 
long and honorably carried 
on l&gt;v his father. 


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"AMES WASHINGTON 
WESTER VELT, CondA, 

- ^ ()nt., was txirn at Hrampt&lt;&gt;n, 
.inty .if I Vel, ist January, i.s.jS. 
He vrafl educated at Bramptoii High 
..MI!, uiuk-r John Scath, B.A., head 
master, \vlii. after filling several im 
portant principalships, was appointed 
In- of nigh Schools and Col 

legiate [nstitutes, which position he 
now holds. At the age of 16 Mr. 
\Vcster\ch entered the Registry Office 
of the County of Peel, and in four 
rs afterwards was appointed Deputy 
krLM-.tr.ir. He then again returned to 
the High School and obtained a second 
class grade certificate and 
entered upon teaching. This 
he abandoned in three years 
for mercantile pursuits, but 
alter two years of business 
life, he again entered the 
teacher s profession, and 
was appointed in February, 
1^75, Commercial Master of 
the Brantford public schools, 
which position he held until 
^i, when lie resigned, in 
order to accept the Princi 
pal ship of the Woodstock 
I5n.sine.ss College, in con 
nection with the Woodstock 
College. Beginning the 
college with but one pupil, 
in four }-ears it had reached 
such a position under Mr. 
\\ "c-tcrvelt s management, 
that the Board had to en- 
e an assistant. In 1885 
lie replied the Principal- 
ship &lt;-f Woodstock Business 
College, and organized what 
is known as the " Forest City 
Business College in the 
city of London. The school 
was organized with the d 
termination to give the in 
practical business education 


to be had, and that Mr. Westervclt has 
succeeded ill this is proved by the l;r 
patronage sjveii tile college by the 
business community. The growth of 
the school has been unprecedented in 
the history of such institutions. From 
a small beginning, it has grown to im 
mense proportions. At present there 
are no less than 150 students in atten 
dance, which is 30 per cent in advance 
of any similar period of the school s 
history. Mr. Westervelt was married 
28th October, 1870, to Miss Susan 
Brooks Learineiit. He is a member of 
the Talbot Street Baptist Church, Lon 
don, Ont. 


MEN OF CANADA. 


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AMES ARCHER WATSON, 
M.D., Toronto, was born ;it 
Emery, York County, Ontario, 
August 2Oth, 1856. He is a son of 
the late William Watson, superinten 
dent of schools in West York. Dr. 
Watson received his education in the 
public schools, in Westou High School 
and Toronto Collegiate Institute. After 
leaving school lie spent seven years 
acquiring a knowledge of mercantile 
matters. Entering Trinity Medical 
College in iSXi, lie graduated in 18X5, 
and immediately began practice in 
Toronto. Dr. Watson was appointed 
an assistant demonstrator of anatomv 


in Trinity Medical College in 1889. 
He has for several years held the ap 
pointment of physician to the Young 
Women s Christian Association ot 
Toronto. He takes an active part in 
the medical societies of the city of 
Toronto and in the province, and is 
thoroughly abreast with the literature 
of his profession. Having the advan 
tage of a thorough training in his 
youth, and large experience with men 
during his business career, coupled 
with a complete knowledge of tin- 
different departments of his profession, 
and being still in the prime of life, his 
future career is full of promise. 


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"V^ELSON G 

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GORDON BIGELOW, 
Toronto, was born on the 
22nd of April, 1840, in the County 
of Simcoe, Ont., his father being Hiram 
I5i-c-l(.\v, mill owner, there. He was 
married to Minerva Edna Calvin, 
daughter of the late D. D. Calvin, 
M.P.P. of Garden Island, Ont. Mr. 
Bigelow was educated in the public 
schools in Lindsay, County of Victoria, 
and in 1X58 entered the preparatory 
department of \ictoria University. 
Cobour^, where lie graduated with 
honors in iSo.j. He then entered the 
law office of the late Jud.^e Macken/ie. 
and was admitted to the practice of law 


in 1867. In 1866 the degree of M.A 
was conferred upon him, and in i 
he received the degree of LL.B. In 

iSSS lie was created a (J.C.. by patent 
from the Governor-General of Canada. 
Mr. liigclow is an adherent of the 
Methodist Church, and a member in 
high standing of the Masonic I .n.t: 

d, having held office in the ^rand 
bodies o! the various grades. IK- : 
most successful ])leader at the liar 
His ser\ices are s])eeially sought aitei 
in criminal cases, where, as counsel, 
lie has acquired B reputation. 

Tn politics lie is a Reformer, and : 
man ot influence in his party. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


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7T LFRED FREDERICK WEBSTER, 

;2~\ D.D.vS., L.D.S., practicing Dental Sur- 
^-^ geon, corner of Bloor and Yonge 
streets, Toronto, Out., son of John Webster, 
carriage builder, of that city, was born November 
1 2th, 1866, in Toronto. He was married April 
8th, 1889, to Jessie Langley, daughter of Henry 
Langley, member of the firm of Langley & 
Burke, architects. Dr. Webster received his 
education in the public schools and Collegiate 
Institute of Toronto, and began the study of 
dental surgery in the Royal College of Dental 
Surgeons of Ontario, where he remained one 
year ; he then went to Michigan and spent two 
years in the University of Michigan, where he 
graduated, receiving the degree of Doctor of 
Dental Surgery. He then returned and finished 
his course in the Royal College of Dental Sur 
geons, graduating in 1889, receiving the college 
gold medal for practical work. Dr. Webster is 
secretary of the Toronto Dental Society, and a 
member of various fraternal organizations. He 
is in the prime of life, and from the way he has 
begun his career, he will undoubtedly attain 
distinction. 


F.mVARIJ AI.HKKT FnKSTKK. 


AI,]-Kl.;ii l-KJ^KKKK 


, D.U.S., L.D.ti. 


DWARD ALBERT FORSTER. 

barrister and solicitor, Toronto, 
^ was born of Irish parentage 
in the United States on the aoth of December, 
1859. He was educated there in the public 
schools, and afterwards at the Toronto Collegiate 
Institute and Normal School. In the year 1877 
he entered the Ontario Law Society as a student 
at law and studied in the law office of Macdonald 
& Paterson, and subsequently in that of Francis 
iK: Wardrop. Mr. Forster has given special at 
tention to the study of criminal and mercantile 
law, and is favorably known amongst the leading 
builders and contractors of Toronto he being 
solicitor for some of the leading men in the 
building trade. In November, 1890, he formed 
a partnership with Robert Hodge, under the 
name of Hodge & Forster. He is a member of 
the Church of England, a member of the A.F. 
& A. Masons, Master of Boyne Loyal Orange 
Lodge No. 173, and is also a member of other 
fraternal organizations. In politics he is a Con 
servative. He has reached his present proles 
sional position by his own personal exertions and 
unremitting diligence. 


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.VART MfXN THOMSON. 

ART MUNN THOMSON, mer 
chant tailor, Brantforcl, Out., was 
born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, on De- 
it&gt;er 2 ist, 1844. Mr. Thomson learned the 
business of a tailor with his father. He then 
went to Glasgow and followed his trade until 
the death of his father in 1867, when he 
returned to his native place to take charge 
of the business there. In 1871 he came to 
Canada, and, after remaining a short time 
Hamilton and Paris, came to Brantford and 
entered the establishment of I. Cockshutt, 
where he remained as cutter until 1882, when 
he .started business for himself, in which he 
has been eminently successful. He was mar 
ried on the 26th of May, 1873, to Mary 
les, a native of Scotland. Mr. Thomson 
is an active member and elder of Zion Presby 
terian Church, and an earnest Sabbath School 
worker. He was president of the Y.M.C.A. 
from is- KIS been president of the 

Bible Society, and a memlier of the Board of 
School Trustees for tell -id chairman 

for two years. 1 1. meml&gt;er of the 

I.O.O.F. and kindred organi/ation.s. 


if IRANI C.I-1-. tanner. I-isherville, On 
Tl was l.ovn on the if.th of April, 1835 

Va in the township of Rainham. 
County of Haldiinand, and was married on 
the ist of June. 1*57. to Mi-^ \\. n \ Ann Hall. 
Mr. (iee spi -ut his first twenty lour years on 
the farm with his parents. He is a direct 
eiidant of 1 .] .. Loyalists, ami is well known 
as i :he largest and most successful 

fanners in the vicinity where he resides. In 
religion he is a member of the Methodist 
Church. He has held important civic offices, 
having been councillor for thirteen years for 
the township of Rainham, and reeve for three 
years. He is now license inspector for the 
County of Haldimand. He is also a Justice 
of the Peace, director of the Fanners Insti 
tute of Haldimand, and ex-president of the 
Haldimand Agricultural Society. Mr. Gee is 
a self-made man, and has reached his present 
prominent position by indomitable persever 
ance. The positions which he holds indicate 
the respect in which he is held. 


DWIN HOOVER, fanner, Selkirk, Out., 
was born on the loth of December, 
1850, in the township of Rainham. 
He was educated at the public school, and 
was married on the ist of January, 1878, to 
Miss Charlotte Moyer. Mr. Hoover was 
brought up on the fann where he resides, and 
has steadily applied himself to agricultural 
pursuits during his entire life. He is held in 
the highest esteem by the farmers of the 
district by whom he has been elected to im 
portant civic positions. He was a memU-r 
of the municipal council for four yea- 
for eight years, and, in 1890, was eU 
warden of the County of Haldimand. Mr. 
Hoover is president of the Kric Mutual In 
snrarce Company, a director of the County 
icultural Society, and :n. ;delit of 

the Township Agricultural Society. By ]&gt;oli 
tical convictions he &gt;nncr. I 

public-spirited man in the highest the 

word. The such men as Mr. 

I to ( Intario are of inestimable value. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


TV LLAN McLKAX HOWARD, 
_i~\ Clerk of the First Division 
V Court in the County of York, 
was born in Toronto on the jih of 
May, 1825, and was married to Wilhel- 
mina Macdonald, of Edinburgh, Scot 
land, by whom he has six children, 
who are all filling responsible positions. 
Mr. Howard received his education in 
the Home district grammar school of 
Toronto, kept by Dr. McAnlay. At 
the age of seventeen he entered the 
office of his father, the late James S. 
Howard, then treasurer of the Home 
district. Here he remained till 1X54, 
when he was appointed to his present 


office. Mr. Howard in religion is an 
ardent churchman, and has occupied 
many important positions, such as 
church warden, and on several occa 
sions has been delegate to the Provin 
cial Synod at Montreal. He is a direc 
tor of the Confederation Life Insurance 
Co., and takes an active part in all 
public business matters, and is an able, 
intelligent and ardent advocate of Im 
perial Federation, a subject which in 
recent years has been widely discussed 
by many of the leading minds of the 
country. Mr. Howard is honest and 
outspoken, and he enjoys the confidence 
of a large circle of friends. 


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JOHN D. WILSON, M.D., C.M., 
260 Queen s Avenue, London, 
Ont., was born at Morpeth, 
( )nt., on the 5th of June, 1858. He 
received his early education in a private 
school, taught by the late James 
Thompson, M.A., well known for his 
scholarly attainments and success as a 
trainer of youth. Dr. Wilson after 
wards attended the medical classes in 
Trinity 1 nivcrsity, Toronto, where he 
graduated, and at a later date spent a 
considerable time in Europe studying 
the higher branches of his profession 
and attending the famous hospitals in 
London, Hug., and on the continent. 


On his return he began practice in 
London, Western Ontario, where he has 
resided since i.S.S^, having now a la 
and daily increasing business. In ad 
dition to his ordinary professional prac 
tice, lie and his brother have established 
a private hospital for the treatment of 
tubercular diseases, which Dr. Wilson 
has for some time made a speciality. 
He was married on September ist. 

&gt;7, to Flora, daughter of M. 
Cameron, ex-M.l .. of C.oderich, Ont. 
In religion, Dr. Wilson belongs to the 
Anglican Church. He holds a high 
place among the many young practi 
tioners of Western Canada. 


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CANADA, 


7\ LEXANDER MILTON ROSS, 
Jr\ M.A, M.D., F.E.S.L., Eng- 

^ land; Toronto, philanthropist, 
scientist and author ; was born Decem 
ber 1 3th, 1832, in Belleville, Out. In 
early life he went to New York and 
served as compositor on the Evening 
Post under Bryant, the poet. During 
this period he formed the friendship 
of Garibaldi, which continued till the 
death of the Italian patriot in 1882. 
In 1851 Dr. Ross began the study of 
medicine under Dr. Mott, and subse 
quently under Dr. Trail. After four 
years study he received tlie degree of 
M.D., and next the appointment of 


I 


surgeon in the army of Nicaragua. 
At this period he took part in the anti- 
slavery struggle, and rendered such 
service with John Brown, of Harper s 
Ferry, and others, as to call forth the 
enconiums of Senator Wade, Vice- 
President of the United States, and the 
poet \Yhittier. During the rebellion 
he was appointed by President Lincoln 
confidential agent in Canada. After 
the downfall of the Confederacy he be 
came surgeon in the Mexican Republi 
can army and subsequently returned 
to Canada to prosecute his studies as a 
naturalist. He has enriched by his 
contributions of Canadian fauna and 
flora the museums of Paris, 

St. Petersburg, Vienna, 

Rome, Athens, Dresden, 
Lisbon, Teheran and Cairo, 
and has written extensively 
on every department of 
natural science. Besides 
the usual medical degrees, 
he has been knighted by 
the Emperor of Russia, the 
kings of Italy, Greece, Por 
tugal and Saxony, and has 
received Medal of Merit 
from the Shah of Persia, 
and decorations of honor 
from Egypt and France. 
Dr. Ross is a Fellow of 
Continental and British 
Literary, Zoological, En 
tomological and Ornitholo 
gical societies, and has been 
associated with the most 
eminent philanthropists of 
the age in questions of moral 
and physical reform. On 
his fiftieth birthday, he was 
the recipient of many con 
gratulations from such per 
sons as Whitticr, "\\Vndell 
Philips and Mrs. Beecher 
Stowe, who joined in U-stifv- 
ing to his labors and worth. 


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CANADA. 


RHY. JOS. .1. McCAXX. 
of Toronto. ( )nt., was born mi 
the 6th of May, iS.j.j, at Port Hope, 
and is descended of Irisli part-lit a.^c. 
I ntil the age of fifteen he attended 
school, and then entered St. Michael s 

!ege, Toronto, where he remained 
until 1864, when he entered the Grand 
Seminary at Montreal, and spent the 
next three years in the study of 
theology. On the 2ist of July, 1867, 
he was ordained priest in St. Mary s 
Church, Toronto, by Archbishop Lynch, 
and was then given charge of St. 
Catherines, which lie served for nearly 
a year, and then was appointed pastor 
of the Gore parish, in the 
County of Peel. From the 
Gore he was transferred to 
St. Paul s Church, Toronto, 
and, after two years labor 
in this field removed to 
Oshawa, where he spent 
five years, serving the two 
churches at Whitby and 
Oshawa. During that period 
he founded two separate 
schools and the presbytery 
of Oshawa. In the year 
1877 Father McCann came 
to Toronto and was appoint 
ed Rector of the Cathedral 
and Chancellor of the Arch 
diocese. In 1882 he was 
appointed pastor of St. 
Helen s Church, Brockton, 
Toronto. During his ad 
ministration this parish 
rapidly improved, and St. 
I lelen s now ranks as one 
of the important parishes 
of the city. In January, 
1891, Father McCann was 

.in installed as Rector of 
Michael s Cathedral, 
Toronto, in which respon 
sible position he is at tin- 
present time cn^a^rd in ful 


filling the sacred duties of his ministry. 
In addition to his parochial laK 
Father McCann is interested in e\ 
work that has for its end the highest 
i^ood of the community. He is 
nixed as an able and* public spirited 
citi/en, giving his time and ener- 
for whatever is calculated to advance 
the common welfare of his fellows. 
In 1889 he was created Dean of 
Toronto by Archbishop Walsh. As 
Father McCann is still in the prime of 
life, higher honors are, doubtless, in store 
for him, and we may expect to hear his 
name in connection with the onward 
march of education and Christianity. 


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AMES BRANSTON 

WILLMOTT, L.D. 

S., D.D.S., M.D.S., 
Toronto, Out., son of the 
late Wm. Willmott, was 
born in the County of 
Hal ton, Ont., June i5th, 
1837. He spent his early 
years on the farm, receiving 
his education at the public 
school. In 1854 he entered 
Victoria College, but failing 
health prevented his taking 
the full arts course. In 
1858 he commenced the 
study of dentistry, and in 
1860 began practice in the 
town of Milton. Taking 
an active part in municipal 
affairs, he was for three 
years a member of the 
Town Council, and for two 
years chairman of the 
Finance Committee. In 
1863 he was appointed a 
Justice of the Peace. In 
1868 Dr. Willmott assisted 
in securing the incorpora 
tion of the dentists of On 
tario as the Royal College 
of Dental Surgeons. Since 
1870 he has been continu 
ously a member of the Board of Direc 
tors and Examiners of the College and 
secretary of the Board. In 1871 he 
graduated from the Philadelphia Dental 
College. Removing to Toronto, he 
\vus requested in 1875, in association 
with Dr. Teskey, to undertake the 
organization of a dental school. Since 
that date he has been Dean of the 
Faculty, filling the chairs of Operative 
Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics. 
When, in 1888, the Dental College was 
affiliated with Toronto University, the 
doctor was appointed to represent it on 
the senate, a position which he still re 
tains. Dr. Willmott is connected with 


the Metropolitan Methodist Church, 
and lias filled nearly every office open 
to laymen. He was a member of the 
Toronto Methodist Conference in 1885, 
1886 and 1890, and a member of the 
General Conference of the Methodist 
Church which met in Toronto in 1886 
and in Montreal in 1890. In 1864 Dr. 
Willmott married Margaret Bowes, 
niece of the late Mayor Bowes, of 
Toronto. Since iSSS he has associated 
with him in his extensive practice his 
son, Dr. W. Earl Willmott, L.D.S., a 
recent graduate of the Philadelphia 
Dental College and of the Dental De 
partment of Toronto University. 


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C I*EORGE M. EVANS-LEWIS, 
^ -* barrister, etc., Toronto, was 
born at Three Rivers, Quebec, ist 
February, 1828. His parents were 
Rev. Francis Evans and Maria Sophia, 
- daughter of Rev. T. F. Lewis, of 
Somersetshire, Eng. Shortly after 
their marriage they came to Quebec, 
where Mr. Evans was ordained, and 
afterwards became Rector of Wood- 
house, Upper Canada, where he labored 
till his death in 1856. He was a 
worthy man, and greatly beloved by 
his flock. Mr. Evans-Lewis received a 
thorough education first at Upper 
Canada College, and afterwards at 


s College and Toronto 
University, where he took 
graduating I .. A. 
In [850, he visited England, 
Ireland and France, and re 
turning to Canada, was ap 
pointed Head Master of the 
Simcoe Grammar School, 
which he held until 1856. 
He then received the ap 
pointment of third Classical 
Master in Upper Canada 
College, which he filled till 
1860, when the mastership 
was abolished. Mr. Evans- 
Lewis having decided to 
enter the legal profession, 
then entered the law office 
of Mr. Adam Crooks, Q.C., 
and remained there until 
1864, when he was called to 
the Bar. From that time he 
has practiced in Toronto, 
and has acquired for him 
self a high standing in that 
city. In 1872 he was elect 
ed to the Public School 
Board, in 1879 alderman, 
and re-elected for the years 
1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883, 
after which he retired. 
While in the Council he 
was for a time chairman of the Water 
Works Committee. Mr. Evans-Lewis 
is a member of the Collegiate Institute 
Board, and a vice-president of the Irish 
Protestant Benevolent Society. He is 
an active member of St. Philip s Epis 
copal Church, superintendent of the 
Sunday School and lay delegate to the 
Synod. His busy life is a constant denial 
of the assumption that the rendering of 
successful sen ice to the public in 

ly prohibits activity in religions mat 
ters." Hf ai&gt;].i-ars to be able to sen e both 
interests well. In iSc^&gt; Mr. Evans took 
the name of Evans-Lewis, in accordance 
with the terms of a family settlement. 


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JAMES REA, M.D., Dovercourt Road, 
Toronto, was born on November yth, 
1861, in Wellington County, Out., the 
son of John M. Rea, farmer. He was educated 
in the public schools and Fergus High School, 
and afterwards taught three years. In 1882 he 
entered Victoria University and graduated with 
honors in 1885, and the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Ontario with honors in 1886. 
He then entered into partnership with Dr. Bate- 
man, of Pickering, until 1888, when he estab 
lished himself in Toronto. In 1887 Dr. Rea was 
married to Mary Isabella Robinson, daughter 
of the late George Robinson, carriage manufac 
turer, Toronto. In addition to his large practice, 
he takes deep interest in social and religious 
matters. He is one of the managers of the 
Y.M.C.A., a member and one of the managers 
of Chalmer s Presbyterian Church, a member of 
the Independent Order of Oddfellows, of the 
Ancient and Canadian Order of Foresters, and 
also belongs to the Orange Society and other 
fraternal organizations. Dr. Rea served 
in the North-West Rebellion as surgeon 
in the Field Hospital Corps. 


RKY. T. I-:. JIAKTI.KY. 


JA.MKS KM.\. M.D. 


THOMAS EDWIN BARTLEY, 

Davisville, North Toronto, was born at 
May, County Tyrone, Ireland, May 
1 6th, 1860. He was educated in the National 
schools of Ireland. He came to Toronto in 
1882, and was appointed to a circuit in connec 
tion with the Methodist Church in Dalston. 
Barrie district, and subsequently spent two years 
at Pickering. In 1885 he entered the Montreal 
Weslevan Theological College and the University 
of McGill. On the completion of his studies, he 
was ordained in iSSj by the Toronto Conference, 
and appointed over the congregation of Dover- 
court, Toronto, where he remained three years, 
his labours having been highly successful in 
building up the church and increasing the mem 
bership. At the close of his term of service at 
Dovercourt, he was invited to Davisville, North 
Toronto, where he ministers to an important and 
growing charge. Mr. Bartlcy was married on 
the 29th of November. iSS;, to Josephine, 
daughter of Thomas McBrien. Whitliy. I Yoni 
present indications, he is destined to occupy the 
foremost positions in the gift of the church he 
serves so well. 


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GKORC.K H. SMITH. 
X~%* 

I EORGE HENRI SMITH, E.A., solicitor, 
v^A Toronto, was born in the County of 
Peel, Ont., on the 23rd of December, 1853. He- 
is the son of Charles Smith and Ksther Jekill, of 
Hull, Eng. His preliminary education was re 
ceived at public schools and Brampton High 
School, after which, at the age of 19, he entered 
the University of Toronto and graduated in 
1877. He then entered the law office of W. 
Mortimer Clark, and subsequently that* of 
Nugent and Jamieson. He was called to the 
Bar in 1881, and immediately began the practice 
of his profession in Toronto. In February, 1876, 
he was married to Miss Charlotte Skirran of 
that city. In 1890 he formed a partnership 
with Archibald Ablxrtt under the name of Smith 
Ov Abbott, their special business being convey 
ancing and litigation. Mr. Smith is a member 
of Trinity Methodist Church and also of the 
(Quarterly Board, is one of the trustees and 
holds other ini]M&gt;rtant offices. He is a member 
of the IndeiH-ndent Order of Foresters and lie- 
to the Liberal Club. He is a prominent 
meinU-r of his church, as well as popular in 
professional and social fin 


JOHN MII.l.S. I. I. tat, 

born at Cartwright. \\Yst Dnihaiii 
County, in November, is^;. IK- is a 
brother of ,\. .1:1.1 &lt; , i . Mills, the well known 
barristers of Toronto, whose names appear in 
this biography, and al-o brother of Principal 
Mills, of the . \-iuultiiral College, r.uclph. 
From his parents he inherited the strength &lt;&gt;l 
character and high moral principles that have 
marked his entire- life. He was educated at the 
public schools, Cobourg College and Bran 1 
Collegiate Institute. He graduated from the 
Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, at 
Toronto in 1880, and immediately commenced to 
practice in the city of Brantford. The public 
soon discovered that he possessed rare mechanical 
genius and adaptation for his profession, and 
came to him from far and near, and he has now 
one of the finest dental practices in Western 
Ontario. He is in politics a Liberal. In religion 
a Methodist, and has held numerous offices in the 
gift of the church. Mr. Mills was married on 
the 5th of October, 1887, to Alice Helen 
Lampkin, daughter of the late Peter 
Lampkin, of Langford, Ont 


JOHN MILLS. 


OF" CANADA. 


IIAMILTOX HUSBAND, 
dentist, Hamilton, Ontario, was 
born March i^th, 1855, in the townslii]) 
of Nelson, and was married on the aoth 
of November, iSSg, to Lillie May Hi re 
ly, daughter of the late Xorris Birely, 
Esq., of Hamilton. Dr. Husband in 
his boyhood attended the public school 
at Zimmerman, and afterwards the 
Georgetown Academy, under Princi 
pal Tate, and finished at Rockwood 
Academy, under Principal McMillan. 
He then attended the Toronto School 
of Dentistry, receiving the degree of 
L.D.S. in 1878. The following year 
he attended the Philadelphia Dental 


College and obtained the degree of 
D.D.S. In 1880 he entered into part 
nership with his cousin. Dr. R. ]. Hus 
band, their practice being the first in 
Hamilton and one of the largest in 
Canada. In religion Dr. Husband is a 
Methodist, and a trustee of \Yesley 
Church, Hamilton, and he has also 
served on the Quarterly Board of that 
church. He is a prominent Mason, 
having taken degrees np to the thirty- 
second, and in politics is a Reformer. 
The doctor is skilful in his profession, 
a genial and friendly man, enjoying 
the friendship and confidence- of a large 
number of persons. 


MEN OF CANADA 


(^KG-RCE A. BINGHAM, M.D., 
M.B., practicing physician, To 
ronto, Out., was born on the 28th of 
August, 1860, in Durham County, 
Out., the son of William and Eliza 
beth Mills Biugham. He was edu 
cated in the Bowmanville High School, 
and having matriculated in arts, taught 
for two years in Harriston, Wellington 
nty. He then entered Toronto 
University, and soon left the university 
to be-in professional studies in Trinity 
Medical College, Toronto, from which 
he graduated with honors. After gra 
duation he became assistant anatomical 
demonstrator in Trinity Medical C 


lege, and in 1889 professor of pract 
anatomy in the same university. IK 
is now a member of the acting staff, 
and pathologist in Toronto General 
Hospital. Dr. Bingliam has readied 
his present position by his own en 
deavors, and as he has hardly arrived 
at middle life, will, doubtless, at no 
distant day, occupy a prominent ]&gt;. 
in his profession. 1I&lt;- is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, also of the 
Mas- nic&lt; )rder,the Independent )rderof 
( Md Fellows and other fraternal societies. 
Bingham s career is an illustration 
of what our Canadian youth may at 
tain by tlve right use of opportunity 


MEN 


K CANADA. 


73 


JOHN LEYS, O.C., barrister, 
Toronto, Out., was born at 
Pickering, Ontario County, on 
the 27th of January, 1834. His father, 
Francis Leys, one of the earliest settlers 
in tiie township, came from Aberdeen- 
shire, Scotland. He was educated first 
at Pickering school, and afterwards, 
when he had readied his twelfth year, 
at the Toronto Academy, of which the 
Rev. Alexander Gale was then presi 
dent. Having completed his prepara 
tory educational training, he entered 
the law office of Angus Morrison and 
was admitted to the Bar in 1860. Pos 
sessed of no ordinary ability, he soon 


succeeded in establishing 
for himself a lucrative prac 
tice. In addition to his pro 
fessional work, he has taken 
considerable interest in rail 
road enterprises, and was 
specially prominent in or 
ganizing the narrow gauge 
railways. He acted as soli 
citor for the Toronto and 
Xipissing Railway from its 
inception until it was merged 
in the Midland. In politics 
Mr. Leys is an active, ener 
getic Reformer, and in 1886 
was elected member for the 
city of Toronto in the Legis 
lature of Ontario. For sev 
eral years he has given 
special attention to farming, 
and has the finest herd of 
Holsteins in the Dominion 
of Canada, having taken 
first prizes against all com 
petitors. In 1890 he was 
created a Queen s Counsel 
by the Government of On 
tario. In religion, Mr. Leys, 
as might be expected from 
his birth and training, is a 
staunch Presbyterian, and 
was for several years secre 
tary of St. Andrew s Benevolent 
Society, Toronto, rendering signal ser 
vice to emigrants from Scotland, many 
of whom can testify to the kind as. ist- 
ance given them on their coming to 
Ontario. Though a native born Cana 
dian, he is devoted Iv attached to the 
land whence his forefathers sprung. 
Mr. Leys was married in the year 1805 
to Helen, daughter of the late Mi. 
William Arthurs. She died on 
the 1 8th of November, 1890. He 
com mauds the respect, not only of 
the profession in Toronto, but &lt;&gt;l 


all classes, 
nationality. 


irrespective of creed or 


74 


\i EN - &gt;i CANJU &gt;.\ 


i I N. WILLIAM I-. 
TH SAM- oRD. of 
V - Hamilton, Out., 
member of the Dominion 
ite, was born in Xcw 
York city in 1*40. His 
parents dying when he was 
quite young, he was sent to 
I lamiltonaud brought up by 
his uncle, Kdward Jackson, 
Esq. At the age of fifteen 
he entered the publishing 
firm of Franier, Brace & 
Co., New York, where he 
remained six years, when 
he was offered a partnership 
in the business, but the 
death of the senior partner 
prevented the carrying out 
of this arrangement. Mr. 
San ford then returned to 
Hamilton and married his 
cousin, Miss Jackson. After 
this he engaged in the 
foundry business in London, 
but upon the death of his 
wife, which occurred a short 
time after their marriage, 
he returned to Hamilton 
and engaged in the wool 
business. In 1862 Mr. 
San ford entered into part- 

nership with M. A. Mclnnis in the 
manufacture of clothing, and from this 
beginning has arisen the great house of 
the W. E. San ford Manufacturing Co., 
(Limited). The San ford block on 
King and John streets, Hamilton, is an 
establishment which speaks for itself 
regards the magnitude of the busi 
ness. Senator Sanford is certainly to 
be classed among the most successful 
business men of Canada. He has oc 
cupied the position of president of the 
I .oanl of vice-president of the 

Hamilton Provident and Loan Society, 
:io\v one of the I .oard of Regents of 
Victoria I niversitv. di: of the 


Empire newspaper, and president of 
the Hamilton Ladies College ; he was 
one of the projectors and vice-president 
of the Manitoba and \orth-\\estern 
Railway Company. Mr. Sanford was 
married, a second time, to Harriet 
Sophia, daughter of Thomas Vaux, 
! .-()., of the Hon Commons, 

Ottawa, a lady of culture and refine 
ment, who is prominent in connection 
with the charities of the city, in which 
she is abb -ted by Mr. S liifonl, 

who takes an interest in and contri 
butes largely to the sup; arioiis 
InMicvolent institutions. His liberality 
lias lonj^ si:: .me proverbial. 


MEN OK CANADA. 


JOHN W. COOUiY, pastor of Col- 
borne Street Methodist Church, Brantford, 
""as born in Toronto township on No 
vember 7th, 1852. His education was received in 
the public and high schools, under such masters 
as Dr. Tassie and John Seath, B.A. In 1869 he 
became a public school teacher, and in 1873 \vas 
appointed master of the Senior Boys School in 
Guelph. At this date he became a member of 
the Methodist Church, and secretary of the 
Guelph Y. M. C. A. In 1874, he was appointed 
probationer at Elora. Subsequently he filled ap 
pointments at Listowel, Hamilton, and Stratford ; 
and in 1878 was ordained and stationed at Klmira. 
Three years later a throat affliction compelled a 
temporary retirement from the Ministry. The 
next two years were spent on the Winnipeg Free 
Press. In 1882, restored to health, he had charge 
of Jerseyville circuit. His subsequent appoint 
ments have been Dunnville, Hamilton, and 
Brantford. Mr. Cooley was journal secretary of 
Niagara Conference in 1890. In 1878 he married 
Miss Keeling of Guelph, who died in 1885. Mr. 
Cooley is a forcible preacher and a pungent 
writer. 


JAMI-:S HI XI. d] 


J 


KKV. JOHN W. OHJI.KY. 


AMI-S DVNLOP, Hamilton. Ont., 

son of J. M. Dimlop, Ayrshire, 
Scotland, was born at the latter 
place on November ist, 1852. He received his 
education at the public school of Binbrook, 
County of \Yent\vorth, and afterwards served 
apprenticeship in the flour and grain business 
with J. Hancock, of Hamilton, with whom he 
remained until 1878, when he was taken into 
partnership, which continued until issj, when 
he bought out the entire business. In 18X7 he 
built new premises, in which he now carries 
011 the largest business in flour, feed, grain and 
seeds in Hamilton, In 1889 he bought the 
property in rear of his present store, and built 
on it a mill, where he manufactures Graham 
flour, pot barley, split peas, corn meal, etc. The 
building extends from John to Catherine street-.. 
a distance of three hundred and fifty feet. Mr. 
Dunlop was married on the i^th of November, 
1*77. to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of K. 
Wilson. Nelson, County of Halton. In politics 
he is an active Conservative, a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and also of the A.U.U.W., 
ami Board O; Trade. 


M i;\ OF CANA1 &gt;A 


|0!;KRT CARROLL, of Carroll 

Yick, contractors on new I ar- 
^ liamcnt Buildings, Toronto, 
horn in Toronto on N"o\emU-r ;th, 
iS; v X, and was educated at the old 
Model School, King- street, Toronto. 
He was apprenticed to the building 
trade with Me. Wilson & Forbes. 

At the expiration of his apprenticeship 
he entered business as a builder on his 
own account, in which he continued 
until 1878, at which time he retired 
from that business and opened out as 
importer and dealer in builder s sup 
plies, continuing that business xuitil 
1 880., when he sold out to Mr. Maguire, 
84 Adelaide street West, to enable him 
to devote his whole time to the comple 
tion of the new Parliament Buildings, 
in which he is now engaged. 

JOHN BENJAMIN VICK is the 
partner of the above-mentioned Robert 
Carroll, and together they compose the 
firm of Carroll & Yick, contractors 
and builders. Mr. Yick was born in 
1843 in the city of Hereford, Eng., and 
was married in 1866 to Francis Annie 
Sadler. He received his education at 
the National School in Hereford, and 
was afterwards apprenticed to the stone- 
cutting business in the same city. An 
soon as he completed his apprenticeship 
he left his native city and devoted the 
next six years to securing employment 
on the largest and best buildings in 
course of erection at that time in Eng 
land. During that period, among 
others, he was engaged in building the 
new foreign offices, London, for about 
one and one-half years. He came to 
Canada in 1870, and was first employed 
as foreman in Toronto, and in 1872 he 
was IT. "ii the new post office in 

Toronto under John Elliott, the con 
tractor; afterwards he tilled the same 
portion for Mr. Benjamin Walton, eon- 
tractor, of Toronto. In 1X77 he made 


arrangements with Mr. Lionel Yorke to 
take the sole management of the ent- 
stone branch of his business. In iSSo 
lie i-ntcrcd into partnership with Mr. 
Yorke, and at his death became partner 
with Mr. Robert Carroll, to complete 
the Parliament Buildings under the 
contract of his late partner. Tl. 
buildings, which are now in course of 
erection, will long stand as a monument 
to the business capacity and professional 
ability of the subjects of these memoirs. 
Mr. Yick is a member of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and has held the 
office of church warden for the past 
five years. Mr. Yick s mechanical skill 
and practical knowledge of plain and 
ornamental stone cutting, so largely 
xised in the better class of our public 
buildings, has been one secret of his 
success in life, while his integrity and 
honorable dealing has given him the 
confidence of all who know him, and 
made for him a host of friends. 


Joli.N IU..NJAM1.S VICK. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


77 


RED. BARNARD FETHER- 
STONHAUGH, of Fetherston- 
haugh & Co., patent barristers, 
solicitors, experts, and draughtsmen, 
Toronto, was born June 2nd, 1863, at 
Paisley, Out. He is the son of Francis 
Fetherstonhaugh, of Carrick Place, 
County of \Yestnieath, Ireland, and 
Fannie Swift, of the celebrated Swift 
family. He was educated at the 
Toronto Collegiate Institute, and after 
studying la\v was called to the Bar in 
Michaelmas Term, 1X89. He spent 
over nine years with Ridont & Co., 
patent solicitors, during which time he 
devoted special attention to the study 


of the profession, both from a legal 
and mechanical standpoint. He is the 
only barrister in Canada who devotes 
himself in his office and court practice 
exclusively to patents, trademarks, de 
sign and copyrights. He has a resident 
partner in Washington, D.C., who per 
sonally attends to all cases of the firm 
before the American Patent Office. Mr. 
Fetherstonhaugh was married February 
lyth, iSSj, to Marion Arabelle Rutledge, 
of Brooklyn, X.Y. In religion, he is 
a member of the Anglican Church. In 
his profession he commands the confi 
dence of a large clientage, and has 
already acquired a lucrative practice. 


M EN - M-- CANAJ &gt;.\. 


EDWIN 
2 IE, B.A., M.D., 
Toronto, Ont., son of Alex 
ander and Rebecca McKen/ie, was born 
at &lt; &gt;ak Ridges, Ont., on the 22nd of 
October, 1X51. Dr. McKcnzie was 
educated at Cobourg Collegiate Insti 
tute and Victoria College. He was the 
mathematical teacher at Coboitrg Col 
legiate Institute from 1875-77. He 
hiated from Victoria College in 
7 and was silver medalist in mathe 
matics. He studied medicine at Mc(iill 
College. Montreal, graduated in i 
with the d of M.D.. C.M., and 

i-rl the same year by the 


Ontario College of Physicians and Sur 
geons. After this he began practice 
in Aurora, from whence he removed in 
1882 to Toronto. In iSX; he went 
to New York and studied orthopedic 
surgery, and afterwards went to Europe 
to continue this line of study in the 
hospitals of London, Glasgow, Uerlin 
and Vienna. In 1889 he returned t-&gt; 
Toronto and was appointed lecturer on 
orthopedic surgery in the \Y&lt;&gt;nien\ 
Medical College and in Toronto Uni 
versity, and aKo i..iiMilting orthopedic 
surgeon in VictoriaHospital forsick chil 
dren. I le Isalsoexaminerin surgery for 
Toronto University for the year if 


M EN OF- CANADA. 


79 


ffi H ARLES H. WATEROUS, senior 
( partner of the Waterous Engine 

^ -^-s. Works Company, Braiitford, 
was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 
zgth September, 1814, of English and 
Puritan parentage. His father was 
then principal of the academy, but two 
years afterwards went to St. Louis, 
where he shortly afterwards died of 
malarial fever, leaving his wife and soil 
with but little means. Arrived at the 
age of seven, his mother married Deacon 
Tripp of New Haven, Vt., with whom 
he lived seven years, working on the 
farm in summer and attending district 
school in winter. At fourteen his 
mother died leaving him 
alone in the world. He was 
then apprenticed at black- 
smithing with Thomas Da 
venport, of Brandon, Vt. 
On his giving up business, 
Charles finished his trade 
in a machine shop and then 
assisted Mr. Davenport in 
constructing an electric mo 
tor. In 1834 he went to 
Ohio, working in Norwalk, 
Sandusky & Cleveland, and 
then sailing on the lakes. 
In 1838 he was chief engi 
neer of the steamer " Gover 
nor Marcy," employed by 
the United States govern 
ment to patrol the Straits. 
In 1838 and 39 he went to 
Xew York, to assist Mr. 
Davenport on a magnetic 
motor. In 1839, having 
spent all his money, he re 
turned to Sandusky, Ohio, 
and began business on his 
oun account. In December 
of that year, he married Miss 
Martha June, with whom he 
lived happily forty years. 
Ik- then engaged, with Mr. 
J.Edgertou, in building mills 


of different kinds, until 1845, when they 
lost their all by fire. Mr. Waterous 
then removed to Buffalo, in partnership 
\vith John D. Shepard. In the fall of 
1848 he came to Braiitford to take charge 
of Mr. P. C. Van Brocklin s foundry and 
machine shops. In 1855 he bought out 
Mr. Van Brocklin s interest and conti 
nued it under his own management until 
1877, when it became the Waterous 
Engine Works Company. He and his 
sons are now sole owners of the esta 
blishment. The business has assumed 
gigantic proportions, and the Waterous 
engines and saw mills are found in 
every part of the new world. 


MIX OF CANADA. 


JAMKS I.. HIV, I IKS. Inspector 
of Schools. T,,ronto. \v;is horn 
in I)nrhain County. Out., on 

runry 2Oth, 1840. I (Y \\ as educated 
in a public school in the township of 

Huston, Durham County, which 
was taught by his father. At the early 
age of twelve years he obtained a certi 
ficate, after which he worked on the 
farm until he was eighteen, then taught 
school for six months, and after this 
entered the Normal School, since which 
time his career has been a progressive 
one. At the completion of his course 
in the Normal in 1865, he was appointed 
to the position of head master of the 


Frankford public school, where he re 
mained cijjit months, when he received 
the appointment of assistant master in 
the Toronto Model School, and was 
made principal in 1871, which position 
lie held until 1874, when he uas ap 
pointed to the important office of In 
spector of 1 uhlic Schools, Toronto, 
which he still holds. Since his ap 
pointment to this position, there has 
been a wonderful improvement in the 
public school system, which is largely 
due to his energy and executive ability. 
Mr. Hughes has written a number of 
popular and important educational 
works. He is a member of the Metho 
dist Church, president of 
Toronto Teachers Associa 
tion, was secretary of the 
Provincial Sunday School 
Association for three years, 
and has been Sunday School 
Superintendent for more 
than twenty years. He is 
an enthusiastic advocate of 
out-door sports, and was pre 
sident of Toronto Lacrosse 
Club for several years. He 
has been president of the 
Irish Protestant Benevolent 
Society, Past County Master 
of the Orange Society, and 
at present is Deputy Grand 
Master of Ontario West, Past 
Master of St. Andrew s Ma 
sonic Lodge, First Worthy 
Chief of Toronto Lodge of 
Good Templars, and is 
chairman of the Executive 
of Woman s En franchise 
inent Association, Toronto. 
Mr. Hughes has been mar 
ried twice first to Annie 
A. Sutherland. Toronto 
and then to Ada Marean, 
of New York. II 
busy and useful life speaks 
for itself. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


81 


EDMl XI) SWKKT. I.I, H. 

EDMUND SWEET, LL.B., of Harley & 
Sweet, barristers, Brantford, Ont., was 
V^ born at L/Orignal on June 2oth, 
1860, his father being the late Rev. E. E. Sweet, 
of the Methodist Church. Educated at Brant- 
ford Collegiate Institute, he graduated in law 
at Victoria University, and is an undergra 
duate in arts of Toronto University. He 
studied law with the late B. F. Fitch, Brant- 
ford, and with Bethune, Moss, Falconbridge 
& Hoyles, Toronto, and was called to the bar 
with honors in 1884. He commenced practice 
in Brantford, and in November, 1885, entered 
into his present partnership. Mr. Sweet holds 
a first-class grade "A" special course certi 
ficate from the Royal School of Infantry at 
vSt. Johns, and was a captain in the Dufferin 
Rifles, resigning in iSS;. On the 3 rst of 
May, i xxx, he married Edith, daughter of 
( i-orgc Footer. Ksq., Brantford. An active 
member of Kraut Avenue Methodist Church, 
lie holds oflicc as trustee, steward and Bible- 
class teacher. IK- has been lor four years a 
member of the Public School Hoard and is 
now chairman of the Educational Committee. 


IV. CHARLES W. COSENS, Cale 
donia, Ont, was born in January, 
) 1856, in Blenheim township, County 
of Oxford, Ontario. He was married in 1886 
to Armintha Haggan. Mr. Cosens was edu 
cated at the public schools of his native place, 
afterwards at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, 
and finally in Victoria University. He spent 
his early years, like man} other of the profes 
sional men of Canada, on the farm. In June, 
1877, Mr - Cosens was received by the Guelph 
Conference of the Methodist Church as a pro 
bationer for the sacred ministry, and was 
ordained in June, 1883. He has travelled 
through the following circuits : Elora, Erin, 
Hespler, Stratford, Mitchell, Brussels, Jarvis, 
Bright and Caledonia. Mr. Cosens is a dili 
gent and faithful pastor, a good, sound Gospel 
preacher, and has been eminently successful 
in the different fields he has occupied. He 
has the faculty of taking good care of maiiv 
things, and no duty that falls to the lot of a 
Methodist minister is neglected. 


E. PATTERSON, engraver, 
121 Church street, Toronto, Out., was 
born in the County of Frontenac, Ontario, in 
1862. He is a son of the late George Patter 
son. Mr. Patterson was educated in Toronto, 
and in 1877 was apprenticed to T. H. Staples, 
engraver, in Toronto. In 1883 he began busi 
ness on his own account, giving his special 
attention to the manufacturing of stamps and 
designs for books and publications of all 
kinds. His establishment is the only one of 
its kind in Toronto, and. necessarily, his busi 
ness from year to year has extended in propor 
tion as the publishing business lias increased 
in Ontario. Mr. Patterson has prepared 
almost all the stamps and designs for the pub 
lications of subscription publishing houses 
and other large book-selling establishments in 
the Dominion. He is a skilful workman, as is 
recoil ii/ed by tile extensive business that he 
has created. Mr. Patterson is a member of 
the Episcopalian Church, and a member of 
various societies 


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JOHX \VF.SI.KY OAKLKY. L.D.S., 
D.D.S.. practicing Dental Sir 
nto. Out., was ],,,rn on April 241)1, 
in the township of IVel. Wellington County, 
Out. His father is Abrain Oakley, fruit mer 
chant, Southern California. He was married 
Septeml&gt;er i6th, 1890, to Bella M. Hay, daughter 
of the late Robert Hay. J.P., Man- borough, Out. 
Dr. Oakley received his education in the public 
schools of Ontario, and matriculated in medicine 
in Trinity University. He began the study of 
dentistry in 1886 at the Royal College of Dental 
Surgeons of Ontario, and graduated with honors 
in 1889. In the same year he graduated with 
honors from Toronto University, when the degree 
of Doctor of Dental Surgery was conferred upon 
him. Dr. Oakley is a member of Queen Street 
Methodist Church. Toronto, and is closely con 
nected with all the departments of Christian 
labor. A Christian young man with a liberal 
education and broad culture, as well as a 
thorough knowledge of his profession, he is 
bound to have many friends and at 
tain an honorable record in the race 
of life 


W J \VA1.SH. 


\v 


J. WALSH, plumber, Hamilton, Ont., 
was born on the ist of February, 
1856, in that city. He was educated at the 
Hamilton public schools, and afterwards went as 
an apprentice to H. Harding, plumber. In 1871 
he entered the establishment of Young Brothers, 
Hamilton, until 1875, when he became foreman 
to Mr. D. McFee. After this he filled important 
positions in the same line of business in New 
York and Chicago, where he received a thorough 
knowledge of plumbing, steam heating, hot water 
heating, and ventilation, until in 1885 he re 
turned to Hamilton, where he has since carried 
on a steadily increasing business as plumber in 
all its branches. He takes extensive contracts 
for all classes of work, and has given the utmost 
satisfaction to all who have favored him with 
their patronage. The very marked m 
Mr. W.ilsh is a clear illustration of the old 
proverb, that "there is always the 

top." In politics he i ve Conservative 

and in religion a Methodist. He alsn ln-loiigs 
to the Free Mason*. He was married in 
to J.:. d daughter of Thomas K-.m ol 

Hamilton. 


MEN OF CANADA 


7T LFREDH.MARSH,B.A.,LLB., 
-i"~\ Q-C., Toronto, was born 3Oth 
^ May, 1851, near Brighton, 
Northumberland County, Ontario. He 
was educated at Brighton Grammar 
School and University of Toronto, and 
graduated B.A. in 1874, called to the 
I!ar in 1877, took the degree of IX. B. 
in Toronto University in 1882, and ap 
pointed Examiner-in-Law in 18X4-85. 
In 1877 he entered the firm of 
Macdonald & Patton (Sir John A. 
Macdonald and Hon. James Patton), 
the firm at present being Macdonald, 
Marsh .S: O Meara. Collateral to, and 
concurrent with this firm, Mr. Marsh, 


in 1883, formed a partnership with the 
late James Beth line, Q.C., the firm 
continuing in existence until his death 
as Bethune oc Marsh. In 1884 he en 
tered into partnership with Win. Lount, 
Q.C., which partnership has continued 
down to the present time, the name of 
the firm now being Lount, Marsh, 
Lindsey ec Lindsey. Mr. Marsh was 
Examiner and Lecturer in Osgoodr 
Hall for several years, and, upon the 
inauguration of the new Law School in 
i88c&gt;, was again appointed Lecturer 
in Equity. He was married August 
loth, iSSo, to Augusta, daughter of 
Vice-Chancellor Proudfoot. 


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CANADA 


GEORGE MURDOCH, of 
the firm of Murdoch & Tytler, 
Toronto, \v:is born in Port Huron, Mich., 
T.S., July 4th, 1852, the son of George 
Murdoch, merchant, a native of Islay, 

tland. In 1868 he entered the 
office of Scatcherd and Meredith, Lon 
don, and subsequently that of Hector 

K-ron, Q.C., and M.P. for North 
Victoria, with whom he formed a part 
nership. In iS^S he w:is called to the 
Bar. Afterwards lie became associated 
with X. F. Hagcl. Q.C., .ind sir 
qncntly with X. Murphy, O.C., until 
I.S.S6, wlien he formed his present part 
nership with John Tytler, of London. 


Mr. Murdoch s success is the result of 
continuous strivings, having been cast 
upon his own resources at an early 
age. During his connection with Mr. 
Murphy he was engaged as counsel in 
a large number of criminal cases. 
chiefly extradition, and is to-day one 
of the foremost criminal lawyers ot the 
Toronto Bar. Such famon 
the " Xewark forgery." " the Lee Cfl 
of Cincinnati, and the " Adam M 
extradition case," together with a hr 
number of trials for murder, have made 
his name well known to the public. 
Mr. Murdoch is also a member of the 
Illinois and Michigan Bars. 


CANADA. 


\\/E. WELDING, 

r r proprietor of the 
Brantford Stoneware Works, 
was born in Caledonia, Liv 
ingston county, New York, 
Sept. 17, 1819. At the age 
of 1 8 he embarked on the 
Erie Canal and " took to the 
saddle." He made his third 
trip between Buffalo and 
Albany as bowsman on his 
boat, when, from severe ill 
ness, he returned home. 
Recovering health, and hav 
ing a liberal education, he 
taught school, near Brock- 
port five winters, and emi 
grated to Canada in 1841, 
locating at Cainsville, three 
miles from Brantford, where 
he taught school three years, 
and organized the first total 
abstinence society ever or 
ganized in any rural district 
in the county of Brant. At 
this date he married Miss 
Alary Jane Hawley, and re 
moved to Brantford as tra 
velling salesman for Morton 
& Co., manufacturers of 
stoneware. He remained 
with that firm and their suc 
cessors 15 years, when he and a Mr. 
Belding entered into partnership. The 
factory was afterwards burned, when 
Mr. Welding purchased the old pottery 
site; rebuilt in 1873, and has since 
carried it on alone, until it now stands 
at the head of the list in this depart 
ment of industry in the Dominion. 
Mr. Welding s religious views by early 
training were of the Methodistic order, 
with which body he was identified until 
1861, when he united with the Congre 
gational Church under the pastorate of 
Rev. John Wood, and in connection 
with which, occupied important posi 
tions of trust. In 1875 he identified 


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himself with Emmanuel Congregational 
Church, and remained a liberal sup 
porter until the society disbanded 
in 1879. Since then he and Mrs. 
Welding have been members of Ziou 
Presbyterian Church, under the minis 
try of Dr. Cochrane. Mr. Welding 
\vas a firm supporter of the republican 
party in the United States in its 
struggle against slavery, and is equally 
a pronounced reformer in Canada. 
Through a long and successful business 
career he has maintained a character 
for the highest integrity, and is the 
friend of every cause that has for its 
object the good of his fellowmen. 


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. THOMAS COLLING, 
B.A., Plattsville, Out., was born 
on the I4th Ma}-, 1840, at 
Lowville, Ont., and was married in 

^2 to Miss E. E. Hill Ingram. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
the- province and afterwards at Victoria 
University, Cobourg, where he gradu 
ated with high standing in 1869. From 
the outfit of his college course he 

d high in all his classes, taking the 
first pri/c for elocution from the Uni 
versity Literary Association and the 

..ml pri/e from the University for 
attainments in English composition. 
Like many Canadians of note, he was 


born on the farm, and spent 
his early days and his \ 
tions during his course at 
the University, in agricul 
tural pursuits. An early 
taste for a Christian educa 
tion shaped his future 

career, so that, when about 

20 years of age, he was 
converted and united with 
the Methodist Church, he 
was at once appointed as a 
local preacher. In 1862 he 
joined the Conference as 
a probationer, and was or- 

dained to the office of the 
Holy Ministry at the Con 
ference held in Toronto in 
1869 by the late lamented 
Win. Morley Punshon, who 
was at that time president 
of the Conference. Before 
ordination Mr. Colling 
travelled the circuits of 
Hullsville and Arran, serv 
ing each one year, and spent 
five years at the Univer 
sity. After ordination he 
labored in the circuits of 
Dnndas, Oakville, Lachine, 
St. Catharines (twice), St. 
Thomas, London, Beams- 
ville, Welland, Simcoe and Plattsville. 
His record in all these circuits, as pre 
sented to the several conferences, has 
been that of unswerving loyalty to hi.s 
church, and signal success. He is well 
known as a faithful pastor, an earnest 
and able Gospel preacher and noted 
church financier. Precious memories () f 
his self-denj-ing labours remain in 
every locality where he has been 
stationed, and large numbers have been 
brought to Christ by his earnest ap- 
s. Mr. Colling lias been secretary 
of the Canada Holiness Association 
siii i/atioii in the year i. v 

and has also been district chairman. 


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Kl-iV. J. S. HOWARD. 


iy. JAMES SCOTT HOWARD, M.A., 
rector of St. Matthew s Church, 
Toronto, was born in Toronto on 
October 2oth, 1856. He is the son of Allan 
McLean Howard, Division Court Clerk, Toronto, 
whose biography appears in this volume. Mr. 
Howard was educated at Trinity College School, 
Port Hope, and Trinity University, Toronto, 
where he graduated in 1 88 1 , and took his degree 
of M.A. On September 23rd, 1882, he was 
ordained deacon in the Church of England by 
Bishop Sweatman, and on September 23rd, 1883, 
ordained priest at St. James Cathedral, Toronto. 
He was then appointed over the Church of St. 
Matthew s, and still ministers to that congrega 
tion. He has been eminently successful in his 
work, as is proved by the largely increased at 
tendance both at church and Sunday School. 
1 nder his administration the congregation have 
built one of the finest churches in Toronto, and 
every department of the parochial work is in the 
highest state of efficiency. The membership 
and congregation of St. Matthew s are to be 
congratulated on the great prosperity that has 
atU-ixlc &lt;! the administration of the present rector. 


^&lt;T*\OBERT STARK, chemist, Hamilton, was 
ri^ born in Dundas, April 8th, 1836, son 
VS&gt; of the late Rev. M. Y. Stark, A.M., 
Glasgow University, Knox Church, Dundas, and 
A. G. Street, Devonshire, England. Mr. Stark s 
earliest instructors were his father and Hon. 
Robert Spence. He then attended Toronto 
Academy, and completed his studies in chemistry, 
etc., at Glasgow University, and in French with 
Mons. Havet, Glasgow. He learned his busi 
ness with English chemists, and carried on a 
drug business in Woodstock from 1857 t 1890, 
and now manages the business of R. Stark & 
Co., chemists, 82 York street, Hamilton. Mr. 
Stark is an Episcopalian, has been church warden, 
and is also a lay reader by licence of the 
Bishop of Huron. He is a P.M. of Oxford 
Lodge, Woodstock, and Oak Branch Lodge, 
Innerkip, Past ist Principal of Oxford Chapter, 
Royal Arch Masons, and Past Collector of Royal 
Arcanum, Woodstock. On the 1 5th of August, 
1861, was married by the Bishop of Huron to S. 

M. J. Revell, daughter of the late Rev. 

Henry Revell, A.M., T.C., Dublin. 

Rector of Ingersoll. 


KOUKKT M AKK. 


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JKSSK CHAPMAN, undertaker and em 
balmer, Hamilton, Out., w.i^ born on 
the nth of February. St. Johns 

Antigua. He was educated at the Central 
1. Hamilton, after which, in 1X05, he went 
to the I nited State*., and in iS;o returned to 
Hamilton as assistant to his father, who was then 
doing the largest business in the city. His father 
died in 1872, when the management devolved 
upon him until his mother s death, in 1875, 
when the business was divided between himself 
and his brother Joshua. In 1878 he bought out 
his brother, and has since carried on the business 
under the title of W. M. Chapman s Sons. Mr. 
Chapman s father was the first on the continent 
to dispense with the use of ice for that of 
chemicals in embalming the dead. Mr. Chap 
man is a member of the Methodist Church, and 
in politics a Reformer. He is a member of the 
following societies: Free Masons, I.O.O.F., 
I.O.F. and A.O.F., Royal Arcanum A.O.U.W., 
Past Commander of the Select Knights, Orange 
Order, Sons of England, and Knights of 
Pythias. He was married on the 2jrd of 
May, 1870. 


JOHN J. VAIV.HAN. 


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OHX J. VAUGHAN, Chief of Police, 
Brantford, Out., was born at Bally- 
shannon. County of Donegal, Ireland, 
on August 22nd, 1851. He was educated at the 
National schools and Grammar School of his 
native place. In early life he worked on his 
father s farm, and was afterwards appointed land 
agent on the Donegal estate of the late Thomas 
Connolly, M.P. for Donegal in 1872. In 1874 
ne came to Toronto with his father and mother, 
five brothers and five sisters, and in April of that 
year joined the Toronto police force, and after 
wards filled various offices, such as patrol 
sergeant, acting detective, etc. In November, 
1885, he was appointed Chief of Police of the 
city of Brantford. Under his direction the 
department has been completely reorgani/ed. 
every member of which is, not only thoroughly 
efficient, but memtiers of churches and all of 
them total abstainers. Mr. Yriughan was married 
&lt;iftolx.-r ist, 1884. to Nell:. &gt;ml daughter 

of the late William N. Cruise-, of Toronto. 
Chief Vaughan is a ineml&gt;er of the Brant Avenue 
Methodist Cliurrh. and also of the l&lt;-.il Hoard ot 
:th. 


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&lt;TXR. ROBT. JAS. HUSBAND, 
1 corner King and John street, 
Hamilton, was born on the 
2 ist of May, 1847, i jl the township of 
Nelson, Halton County, Out., and was 
married on the 26th of October, 1881, 
to Margaret A. Bnnton, daughter of 
the late Win. Bnnton, of Burlington, 
Out. Dr. Husband was educated at 
the common school at Nelson, and 
afterwards studied at the Philadelphia 
Dental College, where he graduated, 
and finally at the Royal College of 
Dental Surgeons, Ontario. He began 
the practice of his profession in the spring 
of 1873 at Fergus, from whence he re- 


moved to Hamilton in the spring of 
1874, and continued his practice alone 
until the spring of 1879, when he took 
into partnership with him his cousin, 
Dr. T. H. Husband. He is a member 
of St. Paul s Presbyterian Church, and 
also on the Congregational Board of 
Management. In politics he is a Re 
former. Doctor Husband s practice 
has rapidly grown, not only in Hamil 
ton, but in the surrounding country, 
and is steadily increasing. The firm 
is well known for the highest profes 
sional work and commands the confi 
dence of a large and wealthy circle of 
patrons. 


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T^RANK COOPER, photographer, 
I London, Ont., was born in Lon 
don township, December 2ist, 
1X45, and married Emily Sclina, 
daughter of W. E. Riddle, of St. 
Catharines, March 19, 1878, by whom 
lu- has two sons and one daughter. 
He was educated at the ordinary country 
school, which, owing to circumstaii 
IK- had to leave at 13, and began the 
hattk- of life. Hi- lir.st became i-rrand 
bo\- in a confectioner s store-, and two 
years afterwards eiiteri-d a dry goods 
.l)lishment as parci-1 hoy. After 
this 1) 1 for a few weeks in 

carriage trimming. His tastes, how 


ever, did not lie in such directions, and 
at the age of 17 lie began the study ot 
photography, for which he had a strong 
desire, entering his brothci s studio to 
acquire a knowledge of the art, and 
remaining until he was 22 years of age. 
when he started business on his own 
account. His capital at the start was 
very small indeed, but by strict atten 
tion, close application, and passionate 
love for his profession, he has been 
very successful. Mr. Cooper is a 
trustee of the Dundas Str itre 

Methodist Church, and member of the 
(Juarterly Hoard, which church he 
United with some IS years ago. 


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IKY. JOHN McDOUGALL, 
chairman of Methodist Mis- 
sions in the Saskatchewan 
District, N.W.T., was born at Owen 
Sound, Out., on December 2"th, 1842, 
and was married in 1864 to Abigail, 
daughter of Rev. H. B. Steinhawr, and 
after her decease he was married again 
in 1872 to Elizabeth, daughter of S. C. 
Boyd. He was educated in the mission 
schools at Newash, near Owen Sound, 
and at Garden River ; he spent one 
winter in the old log school house at 
Owen Sound, and afterwards two ses 
sions at Victoria College between the 
years 1857 and 1860. Air. McDougall 


spent his earl}- years in the backwoods, 
was rocked in log and bark canoes, 
pioneered around the Georgian Bay 
and Lake Superior, and spoke Indian 
before English. He afterwards worked 
in a store trading with Indians in Pene- 
tanguishene, and also in Orillia during 
the years 1855 to 1859. In 1860 he 
came to the North -West Territory, 
taught school at Norway House, and 
then went to the North Saskatchewan, 
where he worked for the Rev. Thomas 
AVolsley for two years as interpreter, 
dog driver, and general roustabout. 
He then entered upon mission work, 
travelling upon the plains, establishing 
missions at Woodville, 
Pigeon Lake, and Morley 
Bow River, and assisted in 
establishing missions at 
Victoria, Edmonton, Fort 
McLeod, Calgary, Wolfe 
Creek, Battle River and 
Bear s Hill. He has been 
chairman of the Saskatche 
wan District for fifteen years, 
and was delegate to the 
General Conference in 1886 
and 1890. He was commis 
sioner for the Government 
in 1874, preparing the way 
among the Indians for the 
coining in of the Mounted 
Police. He was also com 
missioner for the Govern 
ment in 1855, preparing the 
way for the advance of the 
western column at Edmon 
ton and Fort Pitt. He was 
guide, scout, boat builder, 
commissariat officer, chap 
lain, etc., to Gen. St range s 
column, and a member of 
his staff until the comple 
tion of his campaign. He 
is now superintendent of 
Indian Missions in Mani 
toba and the North-West. 


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GEORGE READ. 

- * M;iyor of the City of Brant- 
born there on the I2th 
of May, iS.}^, and was married in 
to Miss S. A. IVmlk-lmry. He 
was educated at the Brant ford public 
schools. His father was the Rev. 
:nuel Read, for many years an earn 
est and respected minister of the Baptist 
Church in Ontario. Mr. Read has 
been for many j-ears in the real estate 
business, and is well known all over 
Ontario as a man of shrewd business 
habits. In religion he is a Baptist, 
being a member of the Park Church, 
ntford, and for eighteen years he 
lias been chairman of the 
finance committee of the 

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society. He held the office 
of alderman from iSSi to 
1890, when he was elected 
mayor of the city. He has 
held other important posi 
tions, such as governor of 
the John H. Stratford Hos 
pital, member of the board 
of Police Commissioners, 
member of the Board of 
Trade, and is at present 
on the Free Library board, 
and the board of \Yater 
Commissioners. Mr. Read 
is well liked by all who 
come in contact with him, 
either in business or public 
life, and has proved himself 
exceedingly attentive to the 
interests of the city. He is 
a strong friend of the tem 
perance cause, and can al 
ways be relied upon to aid in 
its onward march, either by 
the influence of his voice in 
public gatherings or by the 
:tribution of his money. 
He is a Lilx/ral in polir. 
although in his public life 
he has never obtruded un 


duly his views upon the community, 
and as a citi/cn, as well as the chiet 
magistrate of the city, he is equally 
popular with all classes and all shade s 
of politics. His mother still lives in 
the city, and, notwithstanding that she 
has arrived at a good old as^e, is a 
regular attendant upon the ordinal! 
of religion. Like his parents, Mayor 
Read is an earnest Christian won. 
and can always be found at his post 
of duty, both in the church and the 
Sunday school. That all our public 
offices were filled by such men is great 
ly to be desired. May the day soon 
come when such will be the CS 


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93 


WIU.IAM ARCHIBALD YorNC, M.I). 


ILI.IAM ARCHIBALD YOUNG, M.I)., 
L.R.C.P., (London, Eng.,) Toronto, 
Ont., was born of Scotch parentage in January, 
1864. Dr. Young received his earliest education 
in Scotland, and later 011 moved to London, Eng., 
and entered a Collegiate Institute there. He 
came out to Canada in comparatively early life. 
In iS,S2 he entered Toronto Medical School, and 
in the spring of 1886 headed the honor list at 
Victoria University, Cohourg. He then went 
hack to London. Kng., and spent over a year 
in Middlesex University College and St. Thomas 
Hospitals, being licensed by the Royal College 
of Physicians in the spring of 1887. Returning 
to Canada he began the practice of his profes 
sion, where he has continued ever since. In 
November, iSSS, he married Annie Marguerite 
Jennings, daughter of James Jennings, Esq.. 
Toronto. Dr. Young is visiting physician to the 
Home for Incurables, is also a member of both 
the Toronto Medical Society and Ontario Medical 
Association. He is highly esteemed by the 
medical profession, as well as by all with whom 
he comes in contact, and he has a large city 
practice. 


HAS. FRANKLIN STILWELL, manager 
of the Edison Lamp Works, Hamilton, 
Ont., was born on the 28th of March, 
1861, at Newark, N.J. He was educated at the 
public schools of that city. Leaving home in 
1874, he became connected with several branches 
of mercantile business until 1879, when he went 
to Mcnlo Park, N.J., the birthplace of the incan 
descent light. Under his brother-in-law, T. A. 
Edison, he acquired a thorough and practical 
knowledge of the manufacture of incandescent 
lamps. In 1881 he started a lamp factory in 
Montreal, and in 1883 came to Hamilton, where 
he began the present works, the only establish 
ment of the kind in Canada. The works employ 
thirty hands, and are lighted from their own 
plant. They make all kinds of lamps, from the 
smallest, giving half a candle power, to that of one 
hundred and fifty candle power. The manufacture 
of these lamps is most difficult, as they have to pass 
through more than two hundred operations. Mr. 
Stilwell was married in December, 1881, to Sarah 
F., daughter of Prof. S. D. Frazee, Plain- 
field, N.J In religion he is a Methodist, 
and in politics a Conservative. 


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MEN 


CANADA 


^ TATTHKW KKATTY. Welland. Out., 
A\ I t&gt;rn in Ireland in tin.- yc.ir IMS. 

V ami moved with hi.s parents tn the 
Unit in IMS. He came to C mada in 

led in St. Catharines. In iM-&lt;i he 
removed ti&gt; Wi-Iland and started a machine shop. 
From a vcr&gt; small beginning, Mr. Beatty has 
luiilt up a very large trade, and the firm are now 
shipping their machinery to all parts of the 
Dominion, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. 
He has now retired from business, which is car 
ried on by his three sons William L., Harvey 
L. and Alvin O. Beatty. In politics he is a 
pronounced Reformer, and although a manufac 
turer, favors reciprocity between Canada and the 
t nited States. Mr. Beatty belongs to that re 
liable class of Canadian pioneers who have done 
so much during the past fifty years in making 
the country what it is to-day. His distinguished 
business career has been marked from its incep 
tion by keen foresight, unusual ability, untiring 
energy, sterling integrity, and a thorough know 
ledge of the requirements of hi.s trade. 
He was married in 1838 to Miss Mary 
Leverton, of Kngland. 


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HAKLKS HAMMOND ROSS, Police 
Magistrate, Barrie, Out., was born on the 
cs&gt; i~th of February, 1828, in Hull, 
Kngland. When seven years of age he came to 
America, and lived for eight years at Staten 
Island, N.Y., where he received his education. 
After this he lived with his father on the farm in 
Innisfil township, County of Simcoe, for two 
years. He then engaged in the mercantile busi 
ness, and for ten years was in the dry goods 
establishment of T. S. McConkey, when he was 
taken into partnership, which existed for ten 
years. After carrying on this business for a 
number of years, he retired and engaged in his 
present business, that of private banker. Hi- 
keen interest in public questions, and hi.s intcl 
sp of matters affecting the welfare &lt;&gt;l 
the community, have made him prominent in 
public life, as he lias IK.-CII for fi: 
meml&gt;er of the Council, during ten of which he 
ivccve and Deputy K He w;&gt;s first 

1 Mayor of Barrie in iss i. In i- 

pointment of Police Magistrate, in 

religionMr.lv 1 resbyU-rian. He was mar 

ried in i.S^.s to Mary Cowan ( . \\&lt;\. 


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OHX FRANKLIN ADAMS, 
L.D.S., D.D.S., Toronto, Out., 
was born on December 23rd, 
1864, in Dray ton, Out. He is a son 
of John G. C. Adams, dentist, Toronto. 
He was married on the iith of June, 
1890, to Edith, daughter of the late 
John Young, undertaker, Toronto. I Ie 
was educated in the public schools and 
Collegiate Institute of Toronto, and at 
the age of sixteen entered his father s 
office and began the study of dentistry. 
In 1883 he entered the Royal College 
of Dental Surgeons of ( hitario, and 
graduated in 1885. After this he went 
to Philadelphia, V.S., and took the 


degree of D.D.S. from the Pennsylvania 
Dental College, after which he came to 
Toronto and began the practice of his 
profession. Dr. Adams is at present 
vice-president of the Toronto Dental 
Society, and a prominent member of 
various fraternal organizations. He is 
a member of Broadway Methodist 
Church, Toronto, and has been closely 
connected with various departments of 
Christian work, in all of which he 
takes a lively interest. The doctor 
enjoys a large circle of friends, an 
extensive practice, and he is highly re 
spected by all with whom he comes in 
contact. 


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OLIVER R. AVISON, M.D., 
C.M., M.C.P.&S.O., Toronto, 
was born June 3Oth, 1860, in 
Yorkshire, Kng., and was married on 
July 2-Sth. iSS^, to Jennie Barnes, 
daughter of S. M. Panics, Reeve of 
.Smith s Falls. Out. lie was educated 
in the public schools of Ontario and 
in the High School at Almonte. He 
an teaching in I.S7.S and taught for 
three J .nd during that time at 

tended the Ottawa Normal School. 
After this he studied pharmacy for 
three years, and then came to Toronto 
and took a course in the Ontario Col 
lege of Pharmacy, where he graduated 


in 1884, receiving the gold medal for 
" general proficiency," and two other 
gold medals for chemistry and materia 
medica. He was at once appointed lec 
turer in botany in the College of 
Pharmacy, in 1885 became also pro 
fessor of materia medica, and in i 
was also appointed teacher of mi 
scopy. He graduated in medicine in 
-. and was appointed demonstrator 
of materia medica and pharmacy in the 
medical faculty of Toronto I niversity. 
In connection with his professional col 
lege duties he enjoys a large city practice. 
The doctor is a member of Sherbourne 
Street Methodist Church, Toronto. 


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\\/ALTER B. GEIKIE, M.D., 

V \ C.M., D.C.L., F.R.C.S., Edin 
burgh, L.R.C.P., London, Eng., Dean 
of Trinity Medical College, Toronto, 
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 
May, 1830. He came to Canada in 
1843. After a thorough preliminary 
education he entered the medical school 
of the late Hon. Dr. Rolph, and passing 
the usual examinations, was licensed 
to practice in July, 1851. In 1852 he 
went to Philadelphia and took the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jeffer 
son College, and, returning to Canada, 
began professional duties first at 
Bondhead, County of Simcoe, and 
afterwards at Aurora. In 
1856 he accepted a profes 
sorship in the medical de 
partment of Victoria Col 
lege, Toronto, and from 
that time has been constant 
ly engaged in the arduous 
duties of a medical teacher. 
He has filled at different 
periods the chairs of Materia 
Medica, Midwifery , Surgery , 
Anatomy, Clinical Surgery, 
Practice of Medicine and 
Clinical Medicine. In 1867 
Dr. Geikie visited his native 
land and passed the exami 
nations of the Royal Col 
lege of Surgeons, Edin 
burgh, and also of the 
Royal College of Physicians 
of London. In 1871, hav 
ing resigned his position in 
Victoria, he and others in 
duced the corporation of 
Trinity University to re 
organize the " medical de 
partment," which, in 1877, 
became incorporated under 
an independent charter, and 
is now Trinity Medical Col 
lege. In 1871 IK- was ap 
pointed to the Professorships 


of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, and, 
on the death of Dr. Hodder, to that 
of Dean. Dr. Geikie for many years 
rendered valuable service on the acting 
staff of the Toronto General Hospital, 
and has been for a long time one of the 
senior Consulting Physicians of that 
institution. In 1889 Trinity University 
conferred on him the degree of D.C.L., 
in recognition of his eminence as a 
medical teacher and his great services 
to medical education. Dr. Geikie has 
two brothers the Rev. A. C. Geikie, 
LL.D., an honored Presbyterian minis 
ter in Bathurst, N.S.W., and Dr. Cun 
ningham Geikie, the biblical scholar. 


MKX OF- CAN.\I&gt;.\. 


JnSF.l H HEIGHINGTON, 

I rister-at-law, Toronto, was born 
~ ^ _ ;th March, iS.pj, at Skircoat, 
parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, Kngland. 
His father, Thomas Heighington, was 
of an old family living at " Heighing 
ton," near Darlington, in North York 
shire, and his mother, Miss Brearley, 
of a respectable family in the West 
Riding of the same county. Mr. 
Heighington was married August 6th, 
1876, to Clara, second daughter of Rev. 


His (.-dncation was received at the ordi 
nary day schools in Yorkshire and 
under private tutors. At the age of 
16 he was articled to an accountant and 
was taught the science of book-keep: 
At 21 he took a situation, having 
charge of the accounts of a large busi 
ness firm. After this he practiced 
an accountant for two years, and 
finally, having relations in Canada, 
came to Toronto in 1877, primarily on 
account of his health, which, having 


John Compston, Baptist minister, of speedily improved and his liking tin- 
Leeds, Eng., a well-known speaker and country, he determined to stay. He 
writer in musical and temperance kept books in Toronto for a time, 
circles throughout the British Isles. The firm by whom he was employed 

becoming involved in a law 
suit, he had frequent occa 
sion to consult the lawyers 
in the case. One of them 
told him that he ought not 
to waste his time keeping 
books, but should study 
law. He at once entered 
that gentleman s office and 
graduated in 1884, and has 
been practising in Toronto 
ever since. Although not 
seeking notoriety, he has 
built up what is admitted to 
be about the largest " young 
man s business" in Toronto, 
paying particular attention 
to wills, trusts, administra 
tions, investments and gen 
eral commercial law. His 
partners are Thomas Urqu- 
hart and A. J. Boyd, son of 
Hon. Chancellor Boyd. Mr. 
Heighington, while true to 
his native land, enters heart 
ily into all that advar 
his adopted country. He is 
a Baptist and trustee of the 
\Vahner Road Church, T--- 
ronto, largely built through 
the lilK-rality of Alans. ,n 
Harris. Esq . of I .vantford. 


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S. GOTHROI.D PAKKKR, M.B. 


M.B., 
Edin 


EL GOTHROED PARKER 
Toronto, E.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., 
burgh, L. F. P. & S., Glasgow, was born on 
the 1 8th of January, 1862, in Toronto. His 
ancestors were of the South of England, among 
them being distinguished members of the legis 
lature and medical profession. Dr. Parker re 
ceived a high education in the arts courses of 
the University of Toronto. In 1882 he entered 
the medical department of the University and 
graduated with honors in 1886. He then went 
to Europe in the further pursuit of his medical 
studies, and spent many months in the hospitals 
of Great Britain and I&lt;Yance, receiving the above 
decrees and being admitted a Fellow of the 
London Obstetrical .Society. On his return lie- 
began practice in Toronto, where he soon ac 
quired a large and lucrative business. Dr. Parker 
is a member of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and 
is regarded by his many friends as possessed &lt;;l 
rare abilities that promise distinction in future 
years. The doctor s social &lt;|iialities. combined 
with his professional and scholarly attainments. 
have won for him a host of friends, and the num 
ber is continually on the increase. 


AA/ILLIAM CREELMAN, B.A., EE.B., 
* V Toronto, was born at Richibucto. X.I!. , 
on the 1 6th December, 1860. He first attended 
a private school at Buctouche, N.B., and after 
wards the Collingwood Collegiate Institute, and 
finally entered the Toronto University at the age 
of i-, taking a full course in arts and graduating 
in 1882 with the gold medal in philosophy. In 
1885 he took the degree of LL.B. and was also 
called to the Bar. He first studied law in the 
office of McCarthy, Osier, Hoskin and Creelman, 
and from 1885 to 1888 practiced his profession 
alone in Toronto, and then became partner of 
the well-known firm of Blake, Eash and Cassels. 
Mr. Creelman is fond of amateur sport, and takes 
a prominent part in the management of cricket, 
curling, yachting, football and hockey clubs. 
He is deeply interested in the prosperity and 
advancement of his Alma Mater, is a senator of 
the University, (elected by the graduates of the 
Law Faculty), and is also clerk of Convoca 
tion of Graduates. He has a growing popularity, 
and is honored with the friendship of 
a large number of persons, both socially 
and in his profession. 


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JAMES THOMAS T&gt;E\VSOX, manager of 
the Standard Bank, Bradford, Ont., 
was Lorn on the i.Xth of June, 1833, at 
Fort Henry, Kingston. His father was the late 
.el I&gt;c\vson, of the I sth Foot, in the British 
army. He was educated at the public schools, 
and afterwards at the Bradford High School, and 
OU-rlin College, Ohio, U.S. He spent his first 
five years of business life in a dry goods establish 
ment, and in 1854 was employed in the engineers 
office of the Great Western Railway. He then 
devoted several years to farming, and in 1868 be 
gan the grain business at Braclford. Upon the 
establishment of the St. Lawrence Bank in 1873, 
which afterward lx.-came the Standard Bank, 
he was appointed manager. Mr. Dewson is 
an Kqual Righttr in politics, and in religion 
a member of the Church of England. He also 
belongs to the Masonic Brotherhood, a member 
of the Royal Arch Chapter Cyrene Preceptor) 95 
Egyptian Rite, of the I.O.O.F., of the A.O.U.W., 
and also a member of the York Pioneers. He 
was married June I4th, 1860, to Mary, 
daughter of the late J. Lind, Esq., West 
Gwillimtmry, Bondhead, Ont. 


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JOSEPH BEAUMONT, barrister, 
Gait, Ont., was born on February 28th, 
855, at Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. 
He was educated at the Grammar School in 
Sheffield until he was fifteen years of age, when 
he left England for Canada on December 2ist, 
1871. His subsequent education was chiefly 
acquired by private study, although in early life 
he was far more fond of outdoor exercise and 
athletic sports than of books. He was admitted 
a* solicitor at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, in May, 
1879, and came to Gait in 1880, and, after en 
countering much adversity, was called to the Bar 
in May, 1885. Mr. Beaumont by religion is a 
member of the Church of England and served 
as vestry clerk for several years. He wa 
some time Major of the 29th Battalion, from 
which he retired with rank in iS.ss. He 
the present time secretary and trustee of the 
Gait Public School Board, solicitor for that town. 
and has held a mun!x.T of minor offices in con 
nection with literary &lt; -i.ilioii.s. 
etc. Mr. Beaumont is still a young man, and, 
from his push and ability, much may l&gt;c e.\] I 
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101 


COLLISON SCOTT, 
miller, Highgate, Out., was 
^- born in the township of 
Orford, County of Kent, on the 22nd 
of May, 1849. He was educated at 
the district schools near his home. 
After spending the first twenty -five 
years of his life on his father s 
farm, he bnilt the Beaver Oatmeal 
and Flour Mills at Highgate, and 
afterwards, in 18X3, the Cumberland 
Flour Mills at Highgate, the first full 
roller mill in Western Ontario, of 
which he is now owner. Mr. Scott 
has evinced great capacity and energy 
since he began business. The first 


mill was burned in June, 1887. The 
present mill has a capacity of 200 
barrels a day, and gives employment 
to a large number of hands. His re 
putation for upright dealings is univer 
sally recognised, and his trade extends 
to every part of the Dominion. In 
politics Mr. Scott is Independent, sup 
porting principles rather than men. 
He was solicited by the Third Party to 
become their candidate for parliamen 
tary honors, but declined. He is a 
strong temperance advocate, and an 
active member of the Methodist Church. 
He was married in iSSoto Miss Knima 
A. Gosuell, of Orford. 


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CHARLES RICHARDS, general 
1 s merchant, of Caledonia, Out., 
^ ^&lt;^&gt; was born April Qth, 1866, in 
Ancastcr township. He received his 
education in the public schools. His 
father is a fanner, and young Richards 
spent tin- First twenty years of his life 
on the farm. His ambition, however, 
could not be satisfied by the daily rounds 
of a fanner s duty, and IK- looked out 
for more- stirring and profitable employ 
ment. II: : iiisiiK-ss venture was 
in canvassing for a newspaper ; he 
then engaged with the Hamilton In 
dustrial Works Co. Then he became 
salesman for tea and coffee, and finally, 


in June, 1887, bought out a general 
merchant at Caledonia, where he has 
since carried on a growing and profit 
able business. A young man with a 
Christian training, fair education, good 
habits, and, with untiring industry, 
must in the very nature of things In- 
crowned with success. He has been 
a member of the Methodist Church 
from his boyhood, and has taken a 
it interest in the welfare of the 
young people, having been both SC 
tary and president of their literary 
ill is also lieutenant of the 
Haldimaud Rifles, and enjoys the con 
fidence of a large circle of friends. 


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TTnOMAS EDWIX BOULTER, 
JL chemist and druggist, Hamilton, 
Out., was born on the 23rd of May, 
1857, at Edge-wood Farm, County of 
Haldimand, Out. His parents were 
English, who came to Canada in 1837 
and took up a tract of land in the 
township of Walpole, where they have 
ever since resided. The country at 
that time was a dense forest, now it is 
dotted over with fine farms, inhabited 
by a thrift}- and prosperous population. 
Mr. Boulter s grandfather, Andrew 
Wren, was one of the volunteers in 
the Rebellion of 37. Mr. Boulter was 
educated at the common school in the 


township of Walpole, but like most 
Canadian boys in the country, his edu 
cation was broken up by working on 
the farm three months school and 
nine months work. He, however, 
made the best of the opportunities for 
stud}- within his reach, having a desire 
for such professional knowledge as 
would fit him for something different 
from the farm. At the age of eighteen, 
he entered the Collegiate Institute, 
Hamilton, and afterwards served his 
apprenticeship as druggist with Dr. 
Smith for three years. He then left 
Hamilton for Winnipeg, where he 
finished his apprenticeship with White- 
head & Co., and passed his 
examination with honors in 
the Manitoba College of 
Pharmacy. In 1884 he 
came to Toronto and gradu 
ated with honors in the 
School of Pharmacy. In 
1885 he returned to Hamil 
ton as assistant, and after 
wards partner, for two years 
of the firm of R. X. Taylor 
cc Co., druggists. In 1889 
he purchased his present 
business, which is steadily 
increasing, with best pro 
spects for the future. In 
religion Mr. Boulter belongs 
to the Methodist Church in 
Canada. In politics he is 
an ardent and active Re 
former, having served on 
committees of management 
for three successive elec 
tions. He belongs to the 
the Independent ( )rder of 
Foresters, of which he is 
also financial secretary. A 
Christian young man with 
good habits, studious, and 
attentive to business, it may 
be taken for granted that 
he is a success. 


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JOHN COI.UXGS GODDARD, 
builder and contractor, Toronto, 
was ix.ru at .North Arlington, 
Yorkshire, Kng., on the i6th N ovenil)er, 
IS.M, and was married to Mary Nash, 
daughter of John Nash, Westbury, 
\\"ilkshire, Eng., in November, 1854. 
Mr. Goddard, in the best sense of the 
word, is a self-educated man the only 
schooling he received being in the 
winter of 1840, when he attended a 
night school. At the age of ten years 
he entered a stone yard kept by his 
father, and, when seventeen, left home 
and began work as a journeyman, get 
ting the highest wages then paid. 
After spending several years 
in London, he left England 
for Australia in February, 
1852, and, in the following 
year, started business in 
Sydney as builder and con 
tractor. For a time he was 
employed by the Australian 
Government and built sev 
eral fortifications and rail 
ways. For many years Mr. 
Goddard was exceedingly 
prosperous, and left Austra 
lia for London, where, during 
the Franco-Prussian war, he 
lost his entire fortune of 
nearly $88,000. He then 
came to Newark, N.J., U.S., 
but his intense love for 
British soil and British in 
stitutions led him to Canada, 
where he settled in Toronto 
in 1X73. Since then he has 
built man} of the finest 
buildings in that city, such 
as the Sissin buildings, cor 
ner of "Wilton and Yonge 
streets; St. Mary s and St. 
Paul s churches, the Memo 
rial Church of the late Arch 
bishop Lynch, and recently, 
what may be regarded as 


the crowning work of his life, tlu 
Ii &gt;.m! of Trade buildings on Yonge 
street, which, when completed, will 
cost upwards of 5350,000. To such 
men as Mr. Goddard the Oucen City is 
indebted for the many stately structures 
that adorn its public streets and crowd 
ed thoroughfares, and make its drives 
and avenues so attractive and beautiful. 
What they may lack in the scholarly 
culture of the schools that the young 
men of Canada enjoy, is more than 
made up by their strong individuality, 
industry and capacity that renders them 
equal to almost any undertaking. In 
him such qualities are illustrated. 


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LBERTDURRANT WATSON, 

M.D., L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, 
practicing physician, Toronto, 
son of Win. Y. Watson, was born in 
Peel Count}-, Out., on January 8th, 
1859, and was married on Sept. 23, 
1885, to Sarah A. G. Clare, daughter 
of Samuel Clare, for some time a teacher 
in the Normal School, Toronto. Dr. 
Watson \vas educated in the schools of 
his own county and afterwards in the 
Toronto Normal School. He entered 
the Toronto School of Medicine in 
1879, and graduated from Victoria in 
1883. He then went to Europe, at 
tending the Edinburgh, London and 


Paris hospitals, and in 1884 began the 
practice of his profession in Toronto. 
In 1889 he received the degree of M.D. 
from the University of Toronto. Dr. 
Watson is an official member of the 
Methodist Church, takes an active in 
terest in the welfare of the young, and 
conducts a large young people s class- 
meeting. For four years he has been 
a member of the Toronto Annual Con 
ference. He is also a frequent contri 
butor on social questions to leading 
periodicals. His social views are of a 
most advanced character, his motto 
being " l ~roni c&lt;u li according to Ins 
strength, to cut// utYording to his need." 1 


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^ATHANIEL PEARSON, 
f &gt; L.D.S., practicing Dental Sur 
geon, Toronto, Out., was born at Oak- 
wood, Out., on January zgth, 1844, and 
is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
IV; :n son, both descendants of the U.E. 
Loyalists. He was married on the gth 
of April, I.S68, to Ellen, daughter of 
Judah and Klixabeth Lund} , of Sharon, 
;., by whom he has five children. 
Dr. iVarson was educated in the schools 
Aurora and Newmarket, and in 
:\ tin- .study of dental surgery 
under the- late Dr. Edmunds, of Albany, 
N.Y. Ik: graduated in Maivli, 1X69, 
and was licensed by the Royal Col 


of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. 

rson first settled in Newmarket, 
where he began the practice ot his pro 
fession, but in 1879 he moved with his 
family to Toronto, where he still re 
sides and enjoys a large and lucrati\&lt; 
city practice. He is a member of St. 
Andrew s Presbyterian Church, and for 
two years was a member of the board 
of the Royal College of Dental Sur- 

ns, and is now president of the 
Ontario Dental Society. He K a gra 
duate of the. old Military School in 
Toronto, graduating in 1X65, and held a 
commission in the York Rangers for 
many ycar&gt;. 


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107 


RKV. J. A KKAY. 


|EY. JAMES ASHFIELD KEAY, Dundas, 
Ont., eldest son of the late Adam Keay, 
of Toronto, was born December 26th, 
1 86 1, at Toronto. He commenced his education 
at the public schools, Toronto, and finished at 
Stratford. He first engaged in farming. He 
then learned the carriage making business, at 
which he served three years, and afterwards 
worked as journeyman at Manitowaning, Maui- 
toulin Island. In 1885 he decided to enter the 
ministry- of the Baptist Church, and in the fall of 
that year commenced his theological studies at 
Woodstock College. In 1888 he entered Mac- 
Master University, from which he graduated in 
the spring of 1891 with honors. During the 
summer months of his college course he took 
charge of several churches, much to the pleasure 
of the different congregations. In the summer of 
iSS9 lie was at Rapid City, Manitoba, where he- 
did very successful work for his denomination. 
On graduating Mr. Keay received a call to 
Diuidas, which he accepted, and has just entered 
upon his work there. He was married August 
I2th, 1891, to Eugenie Millard, only (laughter of 
the late Isaiah Becker, of Port Rowan. 


"VV/ILLIAM A. ROBINSON, agent for 
V \ Canadian and American Express Com 
panies, was born in Carlisle, Ontario, on the i =jth 
of March, 1857, and was married on the i^th of 
December, iX.X2, to Kate Conn, Ciranton, Ontario. 
He was educated in the public schools of Listowel. 
From 1876 to 1879 he was engaged in the drug 
business, in Granton, with Dr. Long. In 1x79 
he entered the express sen-ices as clerk and tele 
graph operator for the American Express Com 
pany, after that he was appointed to Mitchell, 
Ontario ; two years later he took charge of the 
Post Office there, as assistant, filling that position 
for four years. In 1885 he entered again the 
express services as clerk in the London office, 
where he remained until 1888, when he removed 
to Brantford, and on the ist day of April, 1890, 
he was appointed agent in that place. He has a 
thorough knowledge of all the details of the ex 
press business and is a most genial man as well 
as an accommodating agent. Under his 
able management, this invaluable aid to 
commerce is rapidly increasing in the city. 


WILLIAM A. Kor.INMiX. 


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GORGE Acm-:s&lt; \. M A .. M.B..Tonto, 

\\.is born at ( .alt in [859 His lather, 
Rev. RoluTt Acb -. terian clergy 

man. In i&gt; \ilu-nn married I.ouic M. 

Pin-mister, daughter of Ja&gt;. I hymister. of Mont 
real. He was educated in C.alt C.r.ininiar School 
under Dr. Tassie, where he won the DufTerin 
medal for general proficiency. In 1876 h 
tered the University of Toronto, and graduated 
in arts in 1880, taking the gold medal in natural 
sciences. In 1881 he was appointed Science 
Master in the Toronto Collegiate Institute. In 
1883 he took the degree of M.A., and, in 1887, 
M.B., with first -class honors in the University 
of Toronto. After graduating in medicine he 
was House Surgeon in the General Hospital, 
Toronto. In 1888 he was appointed on the 
Examining Board of the Ontario Medical Council 
and Lecturer in the Women s Medical College, 
and in 1890 Kxaminer in the Medical Faculty of 
the University of Toronto and in the University 
of Victoria College. He is a memlx.-r of the 
Pathological Society of Toronto and other 
medical associations. Dr. Acheson is a staunch 


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Presbyterian. 


GK HERBERT STEPHEN- 
BON, barrister, Manning Ai 
Toronto, was born at Unionville, York County, 
Ont, on the ist of September, 1859, and was 
married to Rossanna S. Baillie, daughter of Win. 
Baillie, Toronto, on the nth of August, ; 
Mr. Stephenson received his education at Trinity 
College, Toronto. His father, John Stephenson, 
*Clerk of the 2nd Division of the County of York 
and Treasurer of Markham Township, was hap 
pily in a position to give his son all the advan 
tages of a broad and liberal education, of which 
he availed himself to the utmost. In May, 1886, 
Mr. Stephenson graduated in law, and at once 
entered business for himself. In professional life 
he has lx.-en abundantly successful, and now en 
joys a large practice. In religion he is an at 
tendant u|xiii the Christadclphiaii Meetings, and 

niemlier of the M I .rotherhood. So 

far In ired to no public honors or ofl 

hut devote* his whole time to jirolc^ion.-i] duties. 
A man of one work, devoting to his profession, 
and giving to his clients, the full U-iiefit of his 

lion and ability, he is bound to make his 
mark in the world. 


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t R. JOHN S. KING, Toronto, 
was born on the 26th of April, 
1 843, at Georgetown, Ont. He 
is the son of Stephen King and Mar 
garet Hess. His father, still living, 
came from Wiltshire, Eng., in 1833 ; 
his mother was descended from a U.E. 
Loyalist family. Dr. King at the age 
of seventeen began his life of self- 
reliance, studied and engaged in teach 
ing, graduating from the Normal School 
with a first-class certificate. Subse 
quently he engaged in newspaper and 
literary work, and was for years a paid 
contributor to several leading periodicals 
in Canada and the United States. He 


was for three years on the 
editorial staff of the Toronto 
Globe under the Hon. George 
Brown. He was also Cana 
dian correspondent for the 
Chicago Tribune for three 
years. Dr. King is a gra 
duate of Victoria Univer 
sity, Cobourg, and an M.D. 
of the University of Toron 
to. He has been surgeon 
to the Andrew Mercer Re 
formatory for Females and 
the Industrial Refuge for 
Girls since the opening of 
both institutions. He has 
secured a large and lucra 
tive practice in both city 
and province. He is a Free 
Mason of 27 3 ears standing, 
a Knight of Pythias, in 
which he was Grand Chan 
cellor four different years, 
and Supreme Prelate of the 
Supreme Lodge of the 
World for four years. He 
has also been a member of 
the I.O.O.F. and of the 
A.O.U.W. He assisted in 
establishing the first lodge 
of the latter organization in 
Toronto, and was the first 
grand medical examiner of that body. 
Dr. King was a member of the first 
Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum. 
He has been connected with the Sons 
of England many years, and is well 
known as the compiler of the early 
history as well as Ritnal and Cere 
monies of the Society. He has also 
been grand medical examiner to the 
Select Knights of Canada since its 
first organization, and director in several 
companies. Dr. King s religion is 
Presbyterian and politics Liberal. A 
man of honor, of unbounded energy and 
great force of character, and to these 
qualities he owes his signal success 


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EDWIN D. Til. I. SON, 
i -i of UK- founder 

- of tin. town of 
Tilsonbtirg. was bom in the 
County &lt;&gt;f Xoriolk, March 

His father v. 

horn in Massachusetts, and 
in 1822 moved to Canada, 
and with Hiram Capron and 
Joseph Van Norman built 
at Long Point the first 
foundry erected in the pro 
vince. In 1826, when Edwin 
was a year old, his father 
came to what is now Tilson- 
burg, and built a saw mill 
and a forge. Here he manu 
factured lumber, wrought 
iron, and laid out roads, and 
acted as count}* commis 
sioner for many years. He 
laid out Tilsonburg in 1835. 
Mr. Tillson attended school 
in Ohio for one year, aiid 
then, until he was twenty- 
one, worked on a farm. He 
then taught school for a 
short time and worked at 
lumbering. In 1847, with 
a capital of one hundred 
dollars, he, with two other 
young men, built a saw 

mill, and purchased valuable pine lands 
near the mill, from Hon. Robt. Baldwin, 
of Toronto, which afterwards became 
valuable. Three years afterwards he 
built another saw mill in the village, 
and, in 1851, selling his interest in the 
small mills, he bought his father s mill 
and water privileges; pulled down the 
old mill and built a fine large double 
mill on the old site. His financial suc- 
3 from this time onward has been 
uninterrupted. Most of the improve 
ments in Tilsonburg were initiated and 
largely assisted by Mr. Tillson s pri 
vate means. In i Su&lt; &gt; lie added to his 
properties a planing mill, sash and 


door factory, flour, barley, pea and oat 
meal mills, and also a large brick yard. 
Mr. Tillson was reeve of Dereham 
township two years, first mayor of Til- 
sonburg, has been postmaster nineteen 
years, and magistrate about twenty 
years. He is a member of the Metho 
dist Church, and also steward and 
trustee for eighteen years, and is in 
terested in many important cntcrpri 
He was married on July 4th, iXv &gt;, to 
Mary Ann Van Norman, of Tilson- 
burg. They have four children living 
and two have died. In the fullest sense 
of the word, he has done much to make 
Tilsonburg what it is. 


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\\/ILUAM EDWIN WINSKEL, 
\\ M.D., M.B., M.R.C.S., Eng 
land, M.C.P. & S., Ontario, Brantford, 
Out., was born June 22nd, 1X53, in the 
township of \Yindham, Norfolk Count} , 
and was married June 4th, 1885, to 
Mary, eldest daughter of D. Z. Gibson, 
Esq., Brantford. He received his edu 
cation at the common schools, the High 
School, Scotland, and Toronto Colle 
giate Institute. He attended lectures 
at Trinity Medical School from 1874 
to 1877, when he graduated, receiving 
the same year a license from the 
Ontario Medical Council. He gradu 
ated from the Royal College of Sur 


geons, England, in 1878, and after 
spending two years in leading hospitals 
in London, he returned to Ontario and 
began practice in Brantford, which is 
now large and lucrative. Dr. Winskel 
has held the office of president, vice- 
president, secretary and treasurer of 
the Brant County Medical Association, 
and is now a visiting physician to the 
John H. Stratford Hospital. He is a 
member and trustee Methodist Church, 
Brantford. He was assistant surgeon 
to the Dufferin Rifles for six years, 
and is now on the retired list with 
the rank of captain. In politics he is 
a Liberal. 


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JAMKS J. FOY, Q.C., barrister, 
Toronto, of the firm of Foy & 
Kelley, was born in that city 
on the 22i\d of February, 1847, and is 
the son of the late Patrick Foy, mer 
chant there. He was married in 1879 
to Marie Cuvillier, daughter of Maurice 
Cuvillier, of Montreal. Mr. Foy was 
educated at St. Michael s College, 
Toronto, and at Ushaw College in 
Kn.nland. In the year 1866 IK- entered 
the- law offices of Crawford oil Crombie, 
and subsequently those of 1 atton, 
Osier & Moss. In Hilary Term of 
r lie was called to the Bar and 
entered on the practice of his profes 


sion. Subsequently he became a mem 
ber of the firms of Thome & Foy, 
Foy, Tupper & Macdonell, and Foy & 
Kelley. In 1 88 1, upon the agitation 
for representatives from the junior Bar, 
Mr. Foy was elected a Bencher of the 
Law Society of Ontario, and in iX.Xb 
was re-elected, lie \\ as appointed O.C. 
in i*.\V He is a member of the Roman 
Catholic Communion, and takes an active 
]&gt;art in many of the financial interests 
the city, l&gt;cing a director of the 
Toronto General Trusts Company 
and of other companies. He is vice- 
president of the Albanv Conservative 
Club. 


OF* CANADA. 


SI1KRIKK WATT 

A\ /ILLIAM WATT, Jr., B.A., LL.B., 
V \ Sheriff of Brant County, was born 
at Brantford, September 29th, 1845, educated 
in the Brantford schools and Toronto Univer 
sity, graduating in 1866 a silver medalist in 
modern languages. He was a member of the 
University Rifles, Queens Own, and partici 
pated in the engagement with the Fenians at 
Ridgeway in June, 1866. He studied in the 
offices of Mr. Hiigh (now Hon. Justice) 
MacMahon and Strong, Edgar and Grahame, 
Toronto, and was called to the Bar in 1869. 
In 1874 he became proprietor of the Brantford 
I: \ poii!or. On severing this connection, he 
was in April, 1890, tendered a public banquet 
and laudatory address by the citi/.ens of Brant- 
Ibid and Brant County in recognition of his 
public services. An ex-president of the Cana 
dian Pros Association and for several years 
secretary of the Board of Trade. Latterly of 
the law firm of Watt &gt;!&lt;: Hewitt, an alderman 
of I .rant ford and secretary of the Liberal ASSO 
ciation lot-South Brant. AppoiiitcdshcriffApril 
- &lt;&gt;. 1891. Married November i&lt;&gt;. 1X75. Uecca, 
daughter of Robert Balmer, Esq., Oakville. 


GEORGE GODARD, Toronto, 
Out., was born on June 4th, 1843, in 
Brighton. England, the son of Philip 
Godard, contractor, there. He was married 
on the 3ist of October, 1867, to Mary Ann 
Peacey, daughter of Charles Peacey, Chelten 
ham, Eng. Mr. Godard was educated in the 
public schools of Brighton. At the early age 
of fifteen he became apprenticed to a cabinet 
maker and upholsterer, in which capacity he 
served seven years. He then went to the city 
of London and worked for a time with the 
firms of Grace & Co. and Banting & Co., up 
holsterers to the royal family of England. In 
1870 Mr. Godard came to Canada and settled 
in Toronto, where he was employed for three- 
years by the well known firm of Jacqtio \- 
Hay. He then began business for himself, 
and for seventeen years has enjoyed a large 
public patronage, which is steadily increasing. 
Mr. Godard is an Anglican by religious pro 
fession, and a member of Grace Episcopal 
Church, Toronto. 


TV RTIIUR SIMENTON, farmer, Black- 

ji \ heath, Out., was born in Wcstport. 
V County of Mayo, Ireland, on Sep 
tember 2Sth, IS;,;,, and was married on the 
i4th of August, 1855, to Eli/a Ramsay. He 
was educated in the public schools in Seneca 
township and in Caledonia, County of Haldi- 
mand. The first six years of Mr. Simentoifs 
life was spent in Ireland at which time he 
came to this country with his parents and was 
brought up on the farm on which they settled 
in the township of Seneca. He is one of the 
largest fanners of the district and has made 
a specialty of raising Southdown sheep, in 
which he has been very successful, and is a 
noble example of what may be done to raise 
the grade of Canadian cattle, for which there 
is (-onstant demand in the markets of the Old 
World. Mr. Simcnton is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church and chairman of the board 
ol management. He has been assessor, eol 
lector and councillor for the period of thirty- 
oiu- years in the township of Seneca. 


MEN OH* CANADA 


LIAM ALBERT ROSS. M.D., 
L.R.C.P., London, and L.R.C.S., 
Edinburgh ; Barrie, Out., was bom December 
22nd, 1861, in Ontario County. He is the 
son of Mr. James Ross, Reeve of the town 
ship of Oro. He received his education at the 
public school, Barrie Collegiate Institute, 
Victoria University, and Toronto School &lt;jf 
Medicine. After he graduated in Victoria in 
1883, he went to New York and spent a year 
in study at Bellevue Medical College. In 1885 
he went to Europe and spent another year in 
the hospitals in London and Edinburgh, re- 
. ceiving the degrees of the Royal College of 
Physicians and Surgeons from those schools. 
Returning to Canada in i88fi he l&gt;egan the prac 
tice of his profession at Barrie. Dr. Ross is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, of the 
Masonic Brotherhood, he is also Supreme Medi 
cal Examiner of the Sons of Scotland Fraternal 
and Benevolent Society. His thorough 
scholarship, coupled with his experience in the 
large hospitals of the American and Euro; 
continent, gives him a high standing in the 
medical profession. 


^^T\ ^ . HAM LIN St. Catherines, Out., 
\\ only son of R. S. Hamlin, vice- 
\^3- president of the Western Bank, 
Oshawa, was born at Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A.. 
on Novemljer 2oth, 1867. He commenced his 
education at the Friends College, Pickering, 
and finished at the British American Business 
College, Toronto. On leaving college he 
settled in St. Catharines, where he has since 
remained. He has recently gone into the 
manufacturing business in that city, where he 
is doing a successful and increasing trade, 
which promises to become a large industry 
in the near future, if a thorough acquain 
tance with the requirements of the trade will 
make it such. Mr. Hamlin formerly had a 
ranche at the head of the Columbia L;&gt; 
British Columbia, which he has sii 
preferring to live in this part of the Dominion. 
In religion he is an Episcopalian. In ]&gt;&lt; 
he takes no active interest. He is a member 
of the Order of Select Knights. He was mar 
1 at Santa Bar : .ifornia, January 

Uth, jS.s ;, to May. youngest daughter of E. 
Wismer. of Markham, Out. 


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CANADA. 


LING 

RYERSON, M.D., 
C.M., Toronto, Out., was 
born in that city in January, 
1855. He is the grandson 
of Colonel Joseph Ryerson, 
U.E.L., son of the Rev. Geo. 
Ryerson and Isabella D. 
Sterling, daughter of Hon. 
Ansel Sterling, Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Connec 
ticut, and nephew of Rev. 
Dr. Egerton Ryerson, late 
Chief Superintendent of 
Education. He was edu 
cated at Gait grammar 
school, and afterwards at 
the Toronto Medical College, 
and graduated in 1875 from 
Trinity University. Pro 
ceeding to Europe, he studied 
at Edinburgh, and took 
double qualifications of the 
Royal Colleges of Physi 
cians and Surgeons. He 
then went to London and 
studied under Sir William 
Bowman and other eminent 
surgeons at the Moorfields 
Eye Hospital, and under 
Sir Morell Mackenzie, throat 
hospital in Golden Square. 
After this he went to the continent and 
studied under Drs. DeWecker and 
Galezowski in Paris, Otto Becker in 
Heidelburg, and Von Arlt, Von Jaeger 
and others in Vienna. On his return 
to Canada in 1880 he was appointed to 
the Eye and Ear Department of the 
General Hospital and Hospital for Sick 
Children, and Professor of Eye and 
Ear diseases in Trinity Medical College. 
Dr. Ryerson was married in 1882 to 
Mary, daughter of the late James 
Crowther. Dr. Ryerson served through 
out the North-West Rebellion as sur 
geon to the Royal Grenadiers; took 
part in the actions at Fish Creek and 


Batoche, and was recommended by Sir 
Frederick Middleton for promotion to 
Surgeon-Major, with the rank of Lieu 
tenant-Colonel for distinguished ser 
vices. He is Master of Ionic Lodge 
A.F. & A.M., and was chairman of the 
Masonic reception to the Duke of Con- 
naught. Dr. Ryerson has written many 
articles on professional subjects in 
journals of the United States and 
Canada. His most important work is 
in relation to the colour blindness of 
railway employees, and defective sight 
in public schools; in this connection 
he has examined nearly six thousand 
children. 


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partner in order to cope- with 
the work, :md also to afford 
an opportunity to di \ 
nuiiv attention to the special 
branch of the profession his 
natural taste and talent di 
rected him. In tile winter 
of 1887 lie went to Philadel 
phia in order to obtain a 
practical knowledge of I)r. 
Weir Mitchell s treatment 
of the nervous diseases of 
women by Massage, etc. 
On leaving Dunda.s he was 
presented by the towns 
people with an address and 
a very handsome token of 
regard, besides numerous 
individual presentations. In 
the spring of 1887 he open 
ed a private hospital in 
Hamilton for women, which 

_^^^^^^ proved so successful that he 

decided to remove to Toronto 
and give up general practice 
altogether. Being the first 
in Ontario to establish a 
private hospital, lie also be 
came the pioneer specialist 
in the province in surgical 
and nervous diseases of 
women. He went abroad 

WTOLFORD "TALKER, M.D., for nine months and became assistant 
JT I Medical Superintendent of to Mr. Lawson Tait, the most celebrat- 
V &gt; Rotherham House, his pri- ed abdominal surgeon of the day. On 
vate hospital, 54, 56 and 58 Isabella returning he reopened the hospital in 
^street, Toronto, was born in Barrie in Toronto. Success has continued to fol- 
iS}6, and married in 1873 Annie Rolph, low him in a marked degree the pro 
(laughter of the late George Rolph, of fession showing their appreciation for 
Ihindas. He took degrees of M.D. at his enterprise by keeping the hospital, 
(Jneen s University, Kingston, and which is one of the, if not the most. 
Harvard University, Boston. The sub- complete on the continent in every detail, 
ject of this sketch affords an illustra- always full. The dogtor has always kept 
tion of what can be achieved by appli- abreast of the times, by making it a 
eation and constant higher aim in life, rule from the first of going abroad c\cry 
Graduating in 1*07, he settled in Dun- fe\\ the practical work of 

das. In a few vcars his practice be- the leading lights in his calling, and at- 
came so large he was obliged to take a tributes lr hiefly to that fact 


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\ LBERT E. K. GREEK, B.A., 
X~\ barrister, Toronto, was born 
^^ December 25, 1860, at " Rose 
Lawn," Colborne, Count) of Northum 
berland, Out. He was educated at Col- 
borne High School and the University 
of Toronto, which he entered in 1879, 
and from which he graduated B.A. in 
1^83. Mr. Greer from his boyhood took 
:i i^reat interest in politics, in debating 
;&lt;-ties, and in literary pursuits. At 
tlu- age of seventeen IK- was elected 
president of tin- Literary Institute of 
his native town. At UK- age of twenty- 
three IK- delivered a series of addre- 
throughout Cornwall, Eng.,on Canada, 


urging tenant-farmers and others with 
means to emigrate. Many of these 
availed themselves of the opportunities 
presented, and are now happily located 
in the great North-West Mr. Greer 
studied law with Judge Kctchum in 
Colborne, and subsequently with Dela- 
mere, Reesor & English. Toronto. I It- 
was called to the Bar in isss. II. 
solicitor tor several of the most MICH 
fill corporations in Ontario 1 1&lt; ; 
prominent member of the Young M 
Liberal-Conservative A^Mu-iation 
member of St. Andrew s Lodge A..F. 
v\ A.M., \o. 16 G.R.C., and belongs t.. 
the Anglican Church. 


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=&gt;-&lt;J^)OBT. LOTTRIDGE 
]\ NELLES, local 
V&gt; freight agent, 
Grand Trunk Railway, To 
ronto, Out., was born on 
March 7, 1842, near York, 
Count} of Haldimand, Out. 
He was educated at the 
public school of York, Out., 
and afterwards under the 
private tuition of the late 
Duncan Cameron and others, 
by which he attained a 
thorough knowledge of all 
the English branches, and 
also a fair proficiency in 
classics and other studies. 
His father, who was exten 
sively engaged in lumbering 
and farming on the Grand 
River, died when lie was 
of tender age, so his educa 
tion and training were en 
tirely under the supervision 
of his mother and his uncle, 
the late Michael Harcourt, 
M.P. After completing his 
education, he spent a few 
years on the farm before 
entering upon business life. 
In 1862 he entered the ser 
vice of the Buffalo and Lake 
Huron Railway Co., now Grand Trunk 
Railway, and has remained with the 
company ever since, occupying posi 
tions of trust in the service at different 
points, until from Caledonia he was 
promoted to Brantford, and latterly 
from Brantford to Toronto. He is 
thoroughly well known to the business 
public of Ontario. The early religious 
training of Mr. Xclles was under that 
pioneer missionary, the late Rev. Bald 
C. Hill. In later years he was a mem 
ber and active Sabbath School worker 
in connection with the Presbyterian 
Church, Caledonia, of which the Rev. 
James Black was pastor. Then, on his 


coining to Brantford, he held the same 
position in the congregation of Rev. 
Dr. Cochrane, and now in Toronto at 
tends the ministry of Rev. Dr. Kellogg, 
of which church he is not only an 
active Sabbath School teacher, but also 
a ruling elder. Mr. Nelles has been 
connected with the active militia since 
the "Mason and Sliclell or Trent" 
difficulty, and at present holds the posi 
tion of major in the 37th Battalion 
under Lieut. -Col. Davis. He is also a 
Past Master of St. Andrew s Lodge 
A.F. and A.M. He was married on 
January gth, i8&lt;&gt;;&gt;, to Agnes Thorburn, 
daughter of the late James Thorburn. 


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\\MLLIAM GAWTRESS RAY- 
&gt; * MOND, Brantford, Out., was 
born in London, England, in 1855. 
He received his early education in the 
Royal Naval School, and at the Royal 
Naval Academy, Southsea. He passed 
the competitive examination for naval 
cadet in 1868, and remained in the navy 
until 1873, when he came to Canada. 
Taking up the art of pianoforte tuning, 
IK- prosecuted its study with determina 
tion to succeed. Perseverance, coupled 
with an acute musical ear, produced a 
marked success, leading to an engage- 
it with the celebrated firm of Mason 
oc Riscli, and later as instructor in 


tlu- art at the Ontario Insti 
tution for the Blind. 1 I, 
refers with pardonable pride 
to the success of the pupils. 
about twenty of whom hav 
ing passed under his tutor 
ship. The disadvant 
of their affliction are so far 
overcome that some of them 
are to-day recogni/.ed as 
among the best tuners in 
the province. He com 
menced his successful busi 
ness career in Brantford in 
1877, the year it became a 
city. The eclectic know 
ledge of pianofortes, gather 
ed from a tuner s varied ex 
perience, finely cultivated 
discrimination of tone qua 
lity, with the practical ex 
perience of the factory, to 
gether with his Stirling in- 
j tegrity, renders his assist 
ance in the selection of 
instruments of peculiar 
value to his patrons. These 
qualities have enabled him 
to include among his cus 
tomers the leading people- 
in the community, and have 
laid the foundation of one 
of the most prosperous piano emporiums 
in the province. Mr. Raymond im 
ports direct from some of the leading 
American factories, but he is a staunch 
advocate of our own manufactories, be 
lieving that the best makers rival those 
of New York in quality, and are more 
economical in price. He is an aid 
man of the city, also member of the 
rd of Trade, and was for some 
years president of the Farriu-ton 1 
bating Society, from which have sprung 
many men who have made their mark 
as public s: I fe married F.li/a- 

beth Ann, daughter of Thou, 
in the year i.SMi. 


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121 


/CAPTAIN WILLIAM 
( GRANT, dry goods 

^^-^&gt; merchant, Brant- 
ford, Ontario, is a native of 
Scotland, and was born in 
Cnpar, Fifeshire, in 1832. 
He came to Canada twenty- 
two years later, and located 
in St. John, N.B., where he 
remained two years. In 
1856 he came to Brantford 
in connection with the firm 
of Taylor & Grant. After 
the dissolution of that firm 
he began business on his 
own account, and is now at 
the head of one of the 
largest mercantile firms in 
Ontario. Captain Grant 
has always been a public- 
spirited citizen, and has 
taken a deep interest in the 
growth and welfare of his 
adopted home. For many 
years he commanded the 
Brantford Highland Volun 
teer Rifle Co., and served 
for several months during 
the year 1863-4 at Sarnia 
shortly after the St. Albans 

Raid, and in 1866 when the 

Fenian troubles agitated the 
country, he was called again into active 
service. Captain Grant was a fine type 
of the volunteer soldier, an excelfent 
officer, and beloved by his men. He 
has ever been active on the Board of 
Trade, and has devoted many years of 
laborious service on the Board of Public 
School Trustees, taking a singularly 
active interest in all local educational 
ai fiirs. Great credit is due him, along 
with other prominent members of the 
.School Hoard, for the erection of the 
handsome new public school in the citv 
of Bruntlonl. In iSo,o he was elected 
unanimously to the position of chair 
man of the board, a position which he 


occupied in former years. In the great 
calamity which befell the school by 
fire, he proved himself a man of moiv 
than ordinary capacity ; faithful, earnest 
and untiring in his efforts to promote 
the educational interests of the city. 
Mr. Grant is ably assisted in his busi 
ness by his three sons and a staff of 
reliable assistants. He is a member of 
Zion Presbyterian Church, and has 
been for many years treasurer to the 
congregation. He is also an earnest 
temperance man, always having the 
courage of his convictions. Honest, 
straightforward, out-spoken, he com 
mands the respect of all. 


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RCHIBALD FARQUHARSON 

MCGREGOR, B.A., Forest, 

^ Ont., was born in Scotland 
in 1851. He was educated at Montreal, 
where he graduated at McGill College 
in arts, and afterwards at the Congre 
gational Theological College there. 
From his earliest years he was devoted 
to literary pursuits, and passionately 
fond of music. He began professional 
life- by teaching in a public school in 
UK- County of Ontario for four years. 
Immediately after graduation he was 
calk-d to tin- ]&gt; of the Cougre.ua- 

tioiial Church in Listowel. ()m. i 
next charge was that of the Congn 


tioiial Church, Spadina 
Avenue, Toroiitd, of which 
lu- was ]&gt;astor for ten ye. 
1 K- is at pn.-st.-ut a member 
of the Missionary and Col 
lege Hoards, and has also 
been a director of the I pper 
Canada Bible Society, and 
was president of the Toronto 
Ministerial Association dur 
ing the year 1890. Mr. 
McGregor has taken a pro 
minent part in the formation 
of the Christian Endeavor 
Societies, now found in con 
nection wth many of the 
Evangelical churches of the 
Dominion. He organized 
the first society in the pro 
vince, if not in the Domi 
nion, in connection with 
the Congregational Church, 
Spadina Avenue, Toronto. 
This society was estab 
lished in 1884, and in 1890 
a Junior Section was or 
ganized, composed of boys 
and girls between the ages 
of ten and fifteen. At the 
recent meeting of the Con 
gregational Union of On 
tario and Quebec, Mr. 
McGregor was unanimously and very 
heartily chosen as Moderator or Chair 
man for 1891-92. This is the highest 
honor in the gift of the churches to 
confer. After a successful pastorate in 
Toronto, Mr. McGregor removed last 
October to Forest, Out., where he is 
now ministering to the Congregational 
Church, and doing missionary work in 
the surrounding fields. He was mar 
ried in 1882 to Miss E. Ashdown, 
Toronto. As a contributor to one 
the leading Toronto weeklies, his bio 
graphical and critical papers on " ! 
and Poetry," have received wide and 
able notice. 


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123 


^fT) E. GALLAGHER, president 
1\ of the Canada Business Col- 
V^ lege, Hamilton, Out., was 
born April 4th, 1853, at East Flamboro, 
Wentworth County, Out. He was 
educated at the High School, Water- 
down, and graduated at the Canada 
Business College in 1874, carrying 
off the general proficiency prize. He 
then taught in the Brantford public 
schools as commercial master, and from 
that removed to the Normal School, 
Ottawa, where he held a similar posi 
tion. In 1877 he was appointed teacher 
in the Business College where he gradu 
ated, and in 1880 Ivcanu- principal of the 


same. The college, under his manage 
ment has grown to great proportions, and 
is to-day the largest and most progres 
sive school of the commercial sciences in 
Canada. In 1883 Mr. Gallagher was 
appointed Dominion Government Civil 
Service Examiner for Hamilton and 
district, and has been twice elected first 
vice-president of the Business Educa 
tors Association of America. He is a 
member of the Hamilton Board of 
Trade, and Past Assistant Grand Secre 
tary of the Grand Lodge of Fivr 
Masons oi Canada. He was married 
January ist, 1877, to Helen, daughter 
of the late Jas. Horsburgh, Hamilton. 


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J 


OHX L. DAVISON, B.A., 
M.D., C.M., M.R.C.S., England, 
Toronto, was born on the aoth 
of November, 1853. He was educated 
at Newbnrgh Grammar School; and 
afterwards graduated from the Normal 
School, Toronto, where he took the 
McCnbe gold medal. He then received 
an appointment in the Provincial Model 
School, where he remained ten years, 
and during that period graduated in arts 
from Toronto University. He then at 
tended Trinity Medical College, wli 
lie graduated with first-class honors in 
Uber this he studied in Edinburgh 
and London , and IM.-C.-I me a member of t la- 


Ro3 al College of Surgeons, England. 
Returning to Canada he began the 
practice of his profession, and in 1885 
was appointed professor of pathol 
in the Women s Medical College, 
ronto. In 1 886 he was appointed to the 
chair of Materia Medica and Therapeu 
tics in Trinity Medical College, and 1 - 
came sub-editor of the ( i///,r//,r l.nim-l 
under the late Dr. Fulton, and after his 
death was appointed editor in chief. In 
7, in partnership with Dr. Sheard, 
he purchased the journal, which they 
still own. In iSS- he was appointed 
on the staff of visiting physicians to 
the Toronto General Hospital. 


MKN OF* CANADA. 


TV NDREW H. BAIRD, 

^~\ Paris, Ontario, was 
^^ born on the ist 
of March, 1834, in the city 
of Montreal, Que. He is 
the eldest son of Nicol 
Hngh Baird, Civil Engineer, 
and Marj^ Telfer White, 
both of whom were born in 
Scotland, and were married 
at By town (now Ottawa) in 
1831. His father practiced 
his profession in Russia for 
a few years, then came to 
Canada in 1827, an d was 
employed on the Rideau 
Canal under Colonel By, 
and after this in the Public 
Works Department until 
his death in 1849. Mr. 
Baird was educated at pri 
vate schools in Montreal, 
and came to Paris at the 
age of fifteen as clerk for 
Mr. Chas. Whitelaw, grain 
merchant there, and with 
the exception of four years, 
when he was paymaster on 
the Buffalo and Lake Huron 
Railway, lias resided there 
ever since. He is interested 
in several of the Paris in 
dustries, such as the Flouring Mills, 
the Carpet Co. and the Wincey Mills 
Co. He has been a member of the 
Paris Town Council since 1863, with 
the exception of three years, and has 
held, for longer or shorter periods, the 
offices of Councillor, Deputy Reeve, 


School, and retired as captain in 1874. 
In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative, 
and takes an active part in political 
campaigns, having contested the North 
Riding of Brant in 1872 and in 1879. 
Mr. Baird was married on the 2oth 


of October, 1858, to Cynthia, eldest 

Mayor, Warden of the County of Brant, daughter of the late Horace Capnm, 
member of Public School Board, Presi- of South Dumfries. In religion , Mr. 
dent and Director of the Mechanics 
Institute, and President of the Board 
of Trade. Mr. Baird was also Master 
of Masonic Lodge Xo. 82. He lias 


taken a very deep interest in the Cana 
dian volunteer service, holds a first- 
class certificate from the Military 


Baird is a member of the Congrega 
tional Church. The valuable services 
he has rendered the town of Paris dur 
ing his long public career have made 
him deservedly popular, and have had 
much to do with the prosperity of the 
community. 


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MEN op CANADA. 


DAM SPEXCE, carriage builder, 
^Brantford, Ont., was born in 

^ the Orkney Islands, Scotland, 
on August Sth, 1830. He was married 
on the 24th of January, 1856, to Sarah 
Speer, who died on the i6th of Novem 
ber, 1858, and was married again on 
the i Sth of September, 1860, to Mar 
garet vSpence. Mr. Spence was edu 
cated in the schools of Orkney, but on 
account of the distance he could only 
attend in the summer season, so that 
his early educational advantages were 
:ipnratively limited. He assisted his 
father on the farm for a year, and 
at fifteen was apprenticed to the trade 


&lt;&gt;f blacksmithing. After 
serving three years, at the 
fly a.^e of nineteen, he 
left his native country for 
Canada, and served two 
years as a carriage black 
smith under instructions 
with Williams & Cooper, at 
Hamilton, Ont. In i 
he removed to Brantfonl 
and worked as a journey 
man for the firm of Smith 
& McXaught. In the 3~ear 
1857 he commenced busi 
ness on his own account, 
since which time his busi 
ness has steadily increased, 
until now it is one of the 
best known in Ontario. Be 
ginning as a blacksmith, he 
added to this the manufac 
ture of wagons and car 
riages of all descriptions. 
In June, 1864, his premises 
were burned and his stock 
consumed, leaving him with 
out anything. He com 
menced again, buying the 
present site and building 
upon it, and with the same 
untiring energy that char 
acterized his younger years, 
he has attained his present position as 
a prosperous and reliable business 
man. Mr. Spence is a self-made man 
and an example for many in Canada 
to follow. He is a Presbyterian by 
religious profession and a member of 
Zion Church, with which he became 
identified in 1855. In 1859 he was 
elected to the eldership. For main- 
years he was alderman of the citv and 
a member of the public school hoard. 
He is a member of the Masonic body 
and of the United Workmen. In such 
lives we have an illustration of what 
faithful persevering efforts will accom 
plish. 


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: T . JAS. GAMMACK, M.A., LL.D.. 
East Toronto, Norway, P.O., Out., 
h was born at Turriff, Aberdeen- 
shire, Scotland, on the 23rd of April, 1837. 
He was educated at Turriff Parish School, 
Aberdeen Grammar School, Marischal College 
and University, Aberdeen, from which Univer 
sity he received M.A. in 1857 anc l LL D. in 
1887. He also attended the Theological Col 
lege, Glenalmond, Perthshire in 1857-59, then 
under Archdeacon Hannah, of Brighton, and 
Canon Bright of Oxford. He was ordained 
deacon in 1859, and priest 1861, was incum- 
!. iit of vSt. Thomas, Tilly morgan, Aberdeen- 
shire in 1861, St. John s Drumlithie, Kincard- 
dineshire, 1866, and Hon. Chaplain to Royal 
Infirmary, Aberdeen. 1887. Dr. Gammack 
has contributed articles at various times to 
Dr. Smith and Dr. Waiv s "Dictionary of 
Christian Biography," Dr. Smith s and Arch. 
Cheetham s " Dictionary of Christian Anti 
quities," and to the Ctuitufiaii C/nar/ii&lt;ut . 
He was married juth April, 1862, to Jane 
Amu-, daughter of the late Rev. John Wilson, 
M.A.. parish minister, Premnay, Scotland. 


M. GRIFFITH. Hamilton, Out., was 
born at Kilkenny, Ireland, May 
I3th, 1840. He commenced his education in 
Ireland, and completed it at the Hamilton 
Commercial College. In 1855 he took up 
land in Bruce County, where he farmed two 
years, then moved to Toronto, where he 
learned the shoe business. In 1861 he went 
to Bowmanville, and in 1862 removed to New 
York and entered a wholesale boot and shoe 
house. In 1864 he came to Hamilton and en 
tered partnership with his brother in the 
manufacturing business. In 18(17 he went to 
Kurope, and in 1868 to California, returning 
in 1870, when he took a position as buyer for 
T. C. Kerr & Co. In 1876 lie started for him 
self, and afterwards took his brother into the 
present partnership under the firm of Griffith 
\- Co.. Hamilton and Quebec. Mr. Griffith is 
an Episcopalian, and in politics a Conserva 
live. He was alderman from 1885 to 1888. 
he is ,i Free Ma-oii, member of the Scottish 
Kite, of the A.O.U.W., of the I.O.F., and 
Orange Lodge. He married, January, 1870, 
Kli/abeth M. Davies, Cardiganshire, Wales. 


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CANADA. 


^ JOBKRT MARSHALL, Dundas street, 
l\ London, Ont., was torn at Lambton 
V^&gt; Park, Count)- of Durham, England, 
November 2ist, 1852. He was educated at 
Wapping school and Penshaw school, and, in 
addition to the usual brandies, studied the art 
of drawing with the object of becoming an 
architect in connection with the Mining Insti 
tute of Engineers in Newcastle-on-T\ m . 
After spending two years in the practical part 
of the business, he came to London, Ont., in 
1872, and worked for a short time as a joiner. 
He then engaged, like his brother, in the tea 
business, and also in the oil producing busi 
ness in the town of Petrolia. The business 
has now acquired great proportions. extending 
from Niagara to Windsor, and from Lake 
Erie to the Georgian Bay. Mr. Marshall is a 
number of the First Congregational Church, 
Ion, Out., also treasurer of the congrega 
tion, and teacher in the Sabbath School. He 
is unmarried. The success of the Marshall 
Bros, most emphatically denies the assertion 
that pushing business men have no time lor 
the work of tlie church. 


EURGE MARSHALL, Dundas street, 
* London, Ont., was l&gt;orn at Lambton 
Park, County of Durham, England, Novem 
ber 2ist, 1852. He was educated at Wupping 
school and Penshaw school in the same county. 
In his early life he learned the trade of joiner 
in England at a town called Chester-le-street, 
County of Durham. Afterwards he came to 
the United States, and in the year 1873 
worked in Chicago. He came to Canada in 
1874 and began business in the tea trade in 
London, Out., where he has continued ever 
since. In 1877 he started in the oil business 
at Petrolia, in which he is also now engaged. 
Mr. Marshall is twin brother of Mr. Rol&gt;ert 
Marshall, whose photograph and biography 
appear on this same page. Mr. Marshall is 
a member of the First Congregational Church 
London, and also holds the "ii. 

I Ie was married in 1881 to Miss Annie Sutln r 
land, of Toronto. The Marshall ]: 

-rably known over a 1 tioti of 

( hitario. Their - nit of much 

Mil attention t-&gt; business, and a thorough 
knowledge of what their customers require. 


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CHRISTOPHER C. ROBINSON, 
I Aurora, Out., was born March 

V-^&gt; i 7 th, 1853, at " Sleepy Hol 
low," Toronto, son of the Hon. John 
B. Robinson, late Lieut-Governor of 
Ontario. He was educated at Upper 
Canada College, and commenced study 
of law with Robinson, Robinson el: 
&lt; ) Brien, and passed first for admission 
to the Law Society, and subsequently was 
called to the Bar. In iSSa lie contested 
the Riding of North York in the Con 
servative interest against the present 
Sheriff Widdifield, and again contested 
the Riding in icSgo on the "Equal 
Rights " platform. He has been Coun 


cillor, Deputy Reeve, and Reeve of 
Aurora, and in June, 1890, was ap 
pointed solicitor for York. He has a 
large practice in Toronto, with offices 
in Aurora and West Toronto Junction. 
Mr. Robinson was married June 23rd, 
i SSo, to Margaret, daughter of Colonel 
Norman T. MacLeod, of Drynoch 
He is Past W.M. of "Rising Sun" 
Lodge A.F. & A.M. 129. Past Master 
Workmen of "Stella" Lodge 118 
A.O.U.W., Past President " Loyalty " 
Lodge S.O.E., and also former presi 
dent of the Nortli York Conservative 
Association. Mr. Robinson belongs to 
the Episcopal Church. 


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-iTUGH DUNCAN CAMERON, 
""^TI Hamilton, Out., was born in 
^&gt; Perthshire, Scotland, 26th 
July, 1833. His father came to Canada 
in 1852 and settled in Huron County. 
Mr. Cameron received his education at 
the public schools, afterwards at a 
private academy in Edinburgh. On his 
arrival in Canada, he taught in the 
to\\ nship of Williams, and subsequently 
in that of Dorchester. In 1855 he was 
appointed lu-ad master in (joderich, 
which he he Id fifteen years, when he 
line head master of (ialt Central 
ool. In 1870 lie accepted a position 
in the Huron and Erie Savings Co., 


and in 1871 was selected to organixe 
and manage the Hamilton Provident 
and Loan Society. He organized and 
was afterwards president of tin- 
Teachers Association of the County of 
Huron. In religion Mr. Cameron is a 
Presbyterian, and has held the off; 
of manager, elder, superintendent of 
.bath School, representative elder 
at .Synod, and at the I niou of the 
Churches. He is a Reformer, a mem 
ber of St. Andre- :rty, and vice- 
Mclent of the Laud M Co. 
He married. April S, 1858, Harriet, 
danjjiu-r of Thos. Putnam, Dorchester 
townsliip. 


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&gt;EV.T.S.LIXSCOTT, 
was born in Devon, 
England, on June 
1846. When twelve 
years old, business disaster 
overtook his parents and he 
struck out for himself, and 
from that time has relied on 
his own resources. His first 
position was in a bookstore, 
but other callings engaged 
his energies before he joined 
the ministry of the Method 
ist Episcopal Church in Ca 
nada in the year 1875. He 
was converted in London, 
England, in his nineteenth 
year and immediately began 
to preach in the parks and 
squares of that city. The 
Bible Defence Association 
engaged his services, to de 
fend the Bible against the 
attacks of British Secular 
ists. For four years, debat 
ing and delivering lectures 
on the Bible was his religi 
ous employment. Mr. Lins- 
cptt felt his need of educa 
tion, and applied himself to 
study with great energy and -^; 

success. Under the pressure 
of business, study and incessant public 
speaking, his health was greatly shat 
tered and he started for America. In 
Ohio he went into book business again 
and came to Ontario as a general agent. 
He was induced to join the ministry as 
above stated, successfully passing the 
Conference examinations and was duly 
ordained^ In 1879 he, for family rea 
sons, retired from the pastorate and 
took charge of the publishing business 
of I .radley, Garretson & Co., at I .nnit- 
ford, Out., of which business lie lias 
still the control. Me is author of 
The Path of Wealth" and several 
pamphlets; the president of the Society 


for the Prevention of Vice, treasurer of 
the Evangelical Alliance, and a member 
of various church boards. His services 
as a preacher are in constant demand 
and he is in Christian labors abundant, 
in addition to the management of one 
of the leading publishing houses in the 
Dominion. Mr. and Mrs. Linscott with 
their six children reside in the beautiful 
suburban villa known as "Seven Acres," 
where, in leisure hours, he dispenses a 
.ucuerous hospitality to his friends, lay 
and clerical. By his employees lie is high 
ly respected, and by his fellow eiti/cns 
regarded as a man, tearless in defcudim- 
the right and denouncing the w 


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U WINSLOW OGDEN, M.B., 
M.D., Professor of Forensic 
Medicine, Toronto University, was born 
on the 3rd July, 1837, in Peel County, 
Ont. His father was Wm. J. Ogden, 
an officer of the York militia. On the 
_ 7th of May, 1862, Dr. Ogden married 
Elizabeth Price, daughter of the late 
\Vm. McKeown. His early education 
\\;is received at the public schools and 
Toronto academy, then connected with 
Knox College. He afterwards attended 
Victoria College-, where he took the 
alar arts course, and in is^x-nteml 
the- Toronto School of Medicine, and 
:it the- saint- time studied natural sci&lt; 


in Toronto University. In 
jSi&gt;o In- iM adnatcd with the 
highest honors from Toron 
to, and at a later date from 
Victoria College, Cohourg. 
In 1869 he was appointed 
lecturer on medical juris 
prudence and toxicology in 
Toronto School of Medicine, 
and in 1887, upon the for 
mation of the medical facul 
ty of Toronto University, 
was appointed professor of 
forensic medicine, which 
also includes toxicology and 
medical psychology. Dr. 
Ogden has attained a posi 
tion in his profession second 
to none in Ontario, and is 
known far beyond Toronto 
as a public-spirited citizen, 
who takes the deepest in 
terest in all that affects the 
welfare of the Dominion of 
Canada. Since 1866 he has 
been a member of the Public 
School Board of Toronto, 
and for some years its chair 
man. In politics he is a 
pronounced Reformer, and 
has rendered valuable ser 
vice to his part} . For a 
long period he was a member of the 
Toronto Reform Association, and also 
held the office of vice-president. In 
1879 he was nominated by the Reform 
party as their candidate for the Legis 
lature of Ontario, and although he 
failed to secure election, he very great 
ly increased the Reform votes usually 
polled in the riding where lie ran. Dr. 
ien is a member of the Methodist 
Church, and has been a member of 
nearly all the annual and general con 
ferences. He is a member &lt;&gt;t the 
Sons of Kngland. and medical director 
and examiner for its beneficiary 
partnient. 


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EV. GEORGE \YM. 
CALVERT, pas- 
tor of the Metho 
dist Church, Paris, Out., 
was born in Yorkshire, 
England, March 3rd, 1846. 
When four years old he 
came to Canada with his 
parents, and the family 
settled near Toronto. In 
1855 his father died, and 
after two years spent at 
Thornhill, young Calvert 
found himself on a farm in 
the township of Walpole. 
Ten years of his life were 
spent here, working on the 
farm and going to school. 
By the ambition and energy 
which has always charac 
terized him, he secured a 
second and first-class certi- 
cate, on which he taught 
for three years. Mr. Cal 
vert was now an earnest 
Christian, and began to 
show signs of the pulpit 
ability which he in after 
years developed in such a 
marked degree. He began 
to exercise his gifts, first as 
a local preacher, and then 
he felt the Divine call to the sacred 
ministry. The caurch, recognizing 
his gifts and graces, he was duly re 
ceived as a probationer by the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church in the year 1869. 
The next six years were spent on 
Cainsville, Aylmer and Port Stanley 
circuits, and at Victoria University, and 
in 1875 he was received into full con 
nection in the Conference and ordained. 
Since ordination he has served the fol 
lowing churches Acton, London Hast, 
St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Port 
Dover, Norwich, and Paris. He re 
ceived his education at the public 
schools, as above intimated, also at 


Cobonrg Collegiate Institute and Vic 
toria University. On May i.^tli, 1885, 
he married Miss Louie Riddle, of St. 
Catharines, a lady of fine accomplish 
ments and a beautiful Christian char 
acter, who died September i4th, 1887. 
Mr. Calvert is one of the able preachers 
of the Methodist Church, and wherever 
he is stationed attracts large congrega 
tions to his ministry. Lie also excels 
as a worker among the young people 
of the church, and possesses in a marked 
degree the rare quality of being able 
to preach to children to their delight 
and profit. He is also an able and out 
spoken advocate of temperance. 


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JOHN AUSTIN WORRELL, 
M.A., B.C.L., Q.C., barrister, 
Toronto, was born on the 2ist 
of Jul} , 1852, at Smith s Falls, Lanark 
County, Out. He is the son of the Rev. 
J. B. Worrell, originally from London, 
Eng., (well known as the Episcopalian 
clergyman of Oakville), and Elizabeth 
J. Lamb. Mr. Worrell was educated in 
private schools, Trinity College School, 
Wcston, and Trinity College, Toronto. 
In iXog lie entered Trinity, and gradu 
ated with double honors in classics and 
mathematics in 1X7.2, taking " The 
\\Vllin holarship" and " Prince 

of Wales " pri/e. He tin n became 


master of Port Hope Trinity 
College School, and in 1X7.) 
came to Toronto and be-an 
the study of law in the 
office of Harrison, ( )sler & 
Moss. He was called to tin- 
Bar in 1878, and imme 
diately afterwards became a 
member of the firm of 
Crawford & Crombie, and 
afterwards of Crombie, 
Crombie & Worrell. After 
the death of Ennestns 
Crombie, the name of the 
firm was again changed to 
that of Crombie, Worrell 
& Gwynne. In 1879 Trinity 
College, Toronto, conferred 
upon Mr. Worrell the degree 
of Bachelor of Civil Law, 
and in 1889 he was created 
Q.C. by the Dominion 
Cabinet of Canada. He is 
a prominent and active mem 
ber of the Anglican Church, 
and has been for a number 
of years a representative to 
the Synods of the diocese 
of Toronto and the Province 
of Canada. In addition to 
a large and lucrative prac 
tice, he holds the position 
of solicitor for the Bank of Montreal. 
He takes an exceedingly active part in 
Provincial and Dominion politics, and 
for a number of years was president of 
the Young Men s Liberal-Conservative 
Association of Toronto, and was also 
elected President of the Young Men s 
Liberal-Conservative Association 
( hitario. Mr. Worrell is one of tin- 
most useful and able men of the many 
that the Queen City p&lt; 
nounced alike in his religious and poli 
tical convictions, but at the same time 
lending his influence to all enterpr: 
that tend to promote the welfare of his 
country. 


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135 


JOHN MARTIN, barrister, soli 
citor and notary public, of 
Toronto, was born in Mono 
township, County of Simcoe, Out., 8th 
November, 1841. His father came to 
Canada when voting, and settled on a 
farm near Orangeville. Mr. Martin 
was educated in the public schools and 
by private tuition. At the age of four 
teen he became assistant book-keeper 
in tlie Exchange Bank, Toronto. From 
1860 to 1863 he taught public school, 
and in February, 1864, came to Toronto 
and studied la\v in the office of Knglish 
ec Foster, and subsequently with 
Larratt \V. Smith, D.C.L. He then 


went to London and concluded his 
studies in the office of Y. Crowyn, 
LL.B., and was called to the Bar in 
1873. After this he became partner 
with Mr. Crowyn for about five years, 
when he finally removed to Toronto, 
and has since practiced his profession 
there. Mr. Martin was married on the 
i jth June, 1874, to Sophia, daughter 
of Charles Scadding, who became heir- 
at-law of his father, John Scadding, 
who accompanied Governor Simcoe to 
Canada as private secretary, and neice 
of Rev. H. Scadding, I ).!)., Toronto, 
Mr. Martin is an Episcopalian, and in 
politics a Liberal. 


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J. 


s. 


was 


M. STAEBLER, the present 
mayor of the well-known 
manufacturing town of Berlin, 
born August i6th, 1846, in the 
County of Waterloo. When but mere 
ly a lad he was obliged to perform hard 
manual toil in carving out a pioneer s 
house with his father, which, of course, 
prevented his attendance at school. 
Hut Young Staebk-r was determined to 
have an education, and so utilixed his 
few spare moments that lie can to-day 
talk, read and write the English and 
man languages fluently, and is in 
the highest scii-c of the word a self- 
made man. His general intelligence 


and business capacity soon attracted 
public attention, and in the year 1880 
he was elected a member of the Town 
Council, which was soon followed by 
the greater honor of the reeveship. 
Both of these offices he filled with credit 
to himself and satisfaction to the people, 
which was made evident by his election 
to the mayoralty in 1X0.1 by a hand 
some majority. In matters of religion 
he is broad and liberal in his views, and 
is in sympathy with all who an- en- 

;n Christian work irrespecti\&lt; 
their creed. Mr. Stacblcr s success is 
the result of great industry and per 
severance. 


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137 


EORGE MUNNS BARTON, 
-* barrister-at-law and ex-Mayor 
of Dundas, Hamilton, Out., was born 
at Carrick-on-Shannon, Count}* Leitrim, 
Ireland, on the i2th July, 1829, and 
was married at Dundas in 1851 to 
Elizabeth Alicia, daughter of Major 
Thomas Atkins, and granddaughter of 
Major-General Atkins, of H.M.S. India. 
He was educated privately in Toronto, 
and entered the law office of Henry 
Eccles in 1847. His father having 
died when he was only five years old, 
and his mother when he was but six 
teen, cast him at an early age on his 
own resources. He availed himself of 
the Toronto Mechanics In 
stitute and improvement 
societies in his education, 
having as companions the 
late Senator John Mac- 
donald and Mr. Gordon 
Brown. In 1849 ne re ~ 
moved to Dundas, where, 
upon the death of Mr. 
Duffield, the junior partner, 
he took charge of the law 
office of "Win. Notman, Q.C. 
In 1852 Mr. Barton was ad 
mitted as attorney-at-law, 
and entered into partnership 
with Mr. Notman, the firm 
soon acquiring one of the 
largest practices west of 
Toronto. In the winter of 
1854-55 he was elected a 
member of the Dundas Town 
Council and served as mayor 
in 1855, but refused re-elec 
tion, as he did also the 
nomination for coalition 
candidate in the- North Rid 
ing of Wentworth. In 1855- 
57 he was connected with 
the woollen factory of Dun 
das in addition to his law 
practice, an enterprise which 
was exceedingly successful 


and took prizes for their manufac 
tures at all the Provincial Expositions. 
In 1859 Mr. Barton was called 
to the Canadian Bar and opened 
a branch Chancery office in Toronto, 
and served for seven years as trustee of 
the Hamilton Law Association Direc 
tory. An offer made by his political 
friends of the Judgeship of AYentworth 
County he declined, as well as other 
proffered honors. Mr. Barton is a 
Baldwin Reformer and National Policy 
man, an Anglican Low Churchman, 
and now spends his later years in 
literary and scientific pursuits in addi 
tion to his law practice in Hamilton. 


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-^TXTXCAX MAkons. M.D.. 

J r.:.intford. Out., \vas born in 
the year iN.}J in Ar^yk-sliire, 
tland, and \vas married in 1X70 to 
Kli/a Brvcc, daughter of Mr. George 
ce, of Mount Pleasant, and sister 
of Dr. George Bryce, of Manitoba Col 
lege. The father of Dr. Marquis clk-d 
when he was seven years of age, and 
two years afterwards, his mother with 
her five children emigrated to New 
York, U.S., and located for a year near 
Caledonia, New York State. After this 
she came to Canada, and with her 
family settled in the township of Brant- 
ford, County of Brant. Dr. Marquis 


spent his early years on the farm. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
the county, and afterwards at the 
.niniar School of the village of 
Mount 1 leasant. the head master at 
that time being \Yaltcr T. Briggs. to 
whose ability as a teacher Dr. Marquis 
owes much of his subsequent succc-^ 
in life. Mr. Briggs was not only sin 
gularly gifted in his profession, but 
kind and sympathetic as a friend to all 
his pupils. On leaving the grammar 
school he immediately commenced the 
study of medicine under the Hon. Dr. 
John Rolph, who was then Dean of the 
School of Medicine in connection with 
Victoria University. Gra 
duating in the year 1867, 
he at once commenced the 
practice of his profession 
in the village of Mount 
Pleasant, near the city of 
Brant ford, where he re 
mained for twenty-two years. 
On the death of Dr. Win. 
Corson, he received from 
the ( hitario Government the 
appointment of physician 
to the Ontario Institute for 
the Blind in Brantford, and 
removed from Mount Pleas 
ant to that city, where he 
now resides. Dr. Marquis 
has a very large practice 
both in city and country, 
and is sought after very 
frequently in consultation. 
He has repeatedly visited 
the New York hospitals, 
and is regarded as a special 
1st in several intricate dis 
eases. I Ie is a member and 
manager of Zion Presby 
terian Church, and has b&gt; 
tor two years president of 
Brant County Medical A* 
.ation, in which he i-- 
deservedl v popular. 


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39 


I 


V\/ALTER WOODS, senior mem- 
V \ her of the well known firm of 
\\ alter Woods & Co., manufacturers, 
importers and wholesale dealers in 
wooden ware, willow ware and grocers 
sundries, Hamilton, Out., was horn on 
the loth of July, iX.jS, and is the eldest 
son of James Woods, for many years 
an esteemed resident of Brantford, and 
one of the pioneer settlers of Brant 
Count}-, having at one time occupied 
part of the property now so well known 
as "How Park farm on the ( .rand 
River. At the age of fourteen Mr. 
\Yoods began to make his way in the 
world by selecting a mercantile life as 


his vocation, and at the age of eighteen 
had charge of one of the leading 
crockery and china bouses in Ontario. 
In 1X71 he began business in a small 
way on his own account, and soon after 
moved to Hamilton, where, by strict 
attention to business, liberal advertis 
ing and bard work, he has built up one 
of the best known houses in his line in 
Canada. His well-known success is 
due to the uniform quality of his goods, 
and the unflinching integrity with 
which he conducts his business. Mr. 
Woods is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and, though not an active poli 
tician, is a staunch Reformer. 


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Jl LFREDJOHX WILKES, Q.C., 
"2~\ LL.B., of the firm of Hardy, 
V^ Wilkes & Hardy, Brantford, 
was born in that city, December i5th, 
iS.}7. his hither being Mr. Jas. \Yilkes, 
who is still the highly respected trea 
surer of that city. He was educated 
at the Brantford public schools and at 
the University of Toronto where he 
took the decree of LL.B. He com 
menced the stndv of law in Brantford 
and completed it under lion. S. H. 
Blake, (J.C.. Toronto. He began his 
professional studies at sixteen, and 
first as barrister at the age of 
twenty-one, the first term at which an 


examination was held after his arriving 
at that age. He is City Solicitor, and, 
in addition to a large practice in the 
city and neighborhood, has acted as 
Deputy Judge for the County of Brant 
at different periods, and was created 
&lt;J C. in January, 1890. Mr. \Vilkcs 
was trustee of the Public School Board 
for ten years, and chairman for three 
years in succession. He was captain 
in the "Ihiffcrin Rifles" for seven 
years, and holds a first-class certificate 
iu the volunteer corps. I h- \\ as married 
June :?rst, 1.^X7. to Esther E. Haycock. 
In politics he is a Reformer, and in 
religion an . palian. 


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NDREW J. HARRINGTON, 
M.D., M.R.C.S., England, 
Toronto, was born at Lind 
say, June 24th, 1861. His father was 
Andrew Jackson Harrington, of New 
York State. He was educated at Port 
Perry High School, and then became 
apprenticed to the drug business. He 
afterwards attended the Ontario School 
of Pharmacy, where he received the 
Rose Gold Medal for Materia Medica. 
In 1885 he went to Chicago and passed 
the examinations before the Board of 
Pharmacy of the State of Illinois, tak 
ing the first place in all his exami 
nations. Dr. Harrington pursued his 


studies at Toronto School of Medicine 
and graduated with honors at Victoria 
University, Cobourg, in 1889. In 1890 
he went to Europe and spent a year in 
further study at London, Edinburgh 
and Paris, graduating as a member of 
the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng 
land. In 1891 he returned to Canada 
and began the practice of his profession 
in Toronto, where he is now working 
up a successful practice. During his 
student days Dr. Harrington was in 
the office of Dr. Arthur Jukes Johnson. 
He was married November nth, 1890, 
to Lizzie, daughter of the late William 
Caiger, of Toronto. 


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=&lt;TN AVID LOWREY, M.D., Brant- 
J ford, Out., was born September 
i-nh, 1846, in the County of 
Hastings, Out. He received his pre 
liminary education at the Newburgh 
Academy, and afterwards entered 
Trinity College, Toronto, where he 
duated in 1879. He began public 
life as a common school teacher, and 
afterwards went into business, at the 
"f 21. In 1876 he gave up mer 
cantile life and began tile practio 
medicine, hut after a short time 
ed an appointment from the Canada 
Life Assurance Company of Hamilton 
to look alter their iir 


counties in Western Ontario. At the 
present time he conducts a very la- 
business in real estate in the town of 
Gait and elsewhere, and is also engaged 
in extensive lumbering operations in 
the Count)- of Bruce. Dr. Lowrcv is 
a prominent member of the Methodist 
denomination, a local preacher, c ass 
leader, steward and Sabbath School 
superintendent, and takes a deep in- 
-t in all moral and religions work. 
He is a prononiH ihitionist and 

active in temperance reform. He was 
married August i^th. iS;.), to Mary 
Cathey, daughter of John Catlu-v. Ks C ,".. 
Alderville, &lt; hit. 


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REV. GEORGE 
A. MITCHELL, B. A., 
pastor of Zion Tabernacle, 
Hamilton, Out., was born 
in North Toronto, January 
3 ist, 1841. James Mitchell, 
his father, came from the 
North of Ireland in 1832. 
His mother was a daughter 
of the late Jacob Snider, a 
U.E. Loyalist of German 
descent. Rev. Dr. Scad- 
ding, in his volume " To 
ronto of Old," refers to the 
subject of our sketch and 
his brother, William J., and 
says they " were to be seen 
twice every day, at all sea 
sons, traversing the distance 
between Eglington and To 
ronto, rising early and late 
taking rest, in order to be 
punctually present at, and 
carefully ready for, class 
room or lecture-room in 
town, and this process was 
persevered in for the length 
ened period required for a 
succession of curriculums." 
Both brothers ranked high 
among the prize men at 
Upper Canada College. 
George matriculated with honors in 
mathematics at Toronto University, 
and devoted himself to the course in 
metaphysics and modern languages, 
and graduated with honors in the latter 
department in 1867. At the age of 
sixteen he was converted and entered 
the ministry of the Wesleyan Metho 
dist Church in 1865. Previous to ordi 
nation he was stationed at Clinton, 
Cooksville, Sarnia and Chatham ; after 
ordination lie labored successively at 
Petrolia, Kincardine, Wingham. Kxeter, 
Harriston, Niagara Falls South, Tilson- 
burg and Hamilton. As a pastor and 
an organizer of the elements of the 


church into peaceful and united action, 
as a patient and persevering worker 
with children and young people, and 
as an earnest and practical preacher, 
securing increased numbers, stability 
and spirituality in his various charges, 
he has few superiors. He has held 
prominent positions in temperance work, 
is one of the board of examiners for 
Niagara Conference, also local ex 
aminer for the American Institute of 
Sacred Literature. He has also filled 
the offices of district chairman, secre 
tary of Niagara Conference, general 
president of the Theological Union, and 
delegate to the General Conference. 


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, -iv 

CLAYTON SLATER was born in 
^^_^^&lt;^, Banioldswick, Yorkshire, on 
January 22, 1839, and was married on 
the 20th of February, 1858, to Judith, 
daughter of Samuel Proctor. Mr. Slater 
was educated, as he himself says : " in 
the high school of practical experience." 
\\ hen seven years old he commenced 
working in cotton ; first, on a bobbin 
wheel, then hand loom weaving, after 
that power loom weaving up to eighteen 
years of age, and since then manufac 
turing cotton and woollen goods of 
various descriptions. He came to Ca 
nada in the year I SS&lt; &gt;, when he built 
a 1. !ton mill, at what is called 


" llolniedale," on the out 
skirts of Hrantfonl. The 
first piece of ijoods made in 
this mill was wo\eii by Mrs. 
Slater to show that there is 
nothing degrading in honest 
toil. In iSS;, Mr. Slater 
built a wince}- mill, which 
he is now operating. J I 
has been all along a str&gt; 
opponent of the high pro- 
tective policy of both Canada 
and the United States, be 
lieving that it works against 
the best interests both of 
manufacturers and the work 
ing classes, and that it is 
calculated to ruin any coun 
try that adopts and clings 
to it. He is well informed 
on all questions affecting 
trade and the manufacturing 
interests both of England, 
Canada and the United 
States, and can discuss by 
the hour the relation of 
supply and demand, as well 
as the effects of a protective 
tariff upon these natural 
laws. In religion Mr. Slater 
is a Baptist and is a most 
liberal supporter of that 
church. He was for a time alderman 
of the city of Brantford, serving the city 
with marked ability in that capacity; 
but the pressure of his extensive busi 
ness has prevented him accepting any 
other public offices. He has all the 
characteristics of an honest out-spoken 
Englishman, and frequently speaks, on 
public occasions, in favor of his political 
views. Tempting offers have been 
made to him to remove his extensive 
wincey mill to Kent, Ohio; but it is in 
be hoped that the city of Brantford and 
the province of Ontario will not be 
called upon to suffer the loss of such 
an important industry. 


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45 


vi 


\\/M S&gt; SPENCER HARRISON, 
M.D., C.M., Brantford, Out, 
was born in Milton, Halton County, on 
the loth of August, 1863. He received 
his education at the public school in 
Milton, Waterdown High School, and 
Hamilton Collegiate Institute. He re 
ceived his professional education at 
Trinity Medical College, Toronto, and 
graduated in 1883 as M.D., C.M., with 
first-class honors. His father, who is 
still living (1891), is in his S.|tli year, 
and one of the oldest settlers of Halton 
County. Dr. Harrison spent his early 
life on his father s farm. I Ie commenced 
the practice of his profession at Cooks- 


ville, County of Peel, where he remained 
two years. In 1887 he went to Europe, 
where he visited the large hospitals in 
England and other countries. On re 
turning he began practice in the citv 
of Brantford, where he has already 
acquired a large patronage. He is a 
member of Brant County Medical As 
sociation, an enthusiast in his profes 
sion, and well read in medical science. 
Dr. Harrison was married on the 6th 
of August, 1884, to Emma Bertha 
Skirrow, of Toronto. He is a member 
of the Methodist Church, teacher of a 
Bible class, and a member of various 
benevolent societies. 


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~^T\ K V. HOWARD CAvSSlDY, Dean 
|\ of Toronto, was born there on 
Vss October 4th, 1845. He is 
the son of James Cassidy, who came 
from Fermanagh County, Ireland, and 
settled in Toronto. The Dean received 
his education at the separate schools 
and St. Michael s College, Toronto, and 
in 1866 he entered the Grand Theo 
logical Seminary at Montreal, and was 
ordained to the priesthood of the Roman 
Catholic Church by the late Archbishop 
Lynch, at St. Michael s Cathedral, 
Toronto, in &lt; )cto!x.-r, iSoS. He then 
became assistant ; : the churches 

in the parishes of Hrock and St. Catha 


rines. In 1871 he was appointed over 
the churches at Thornhill and Rich 
mond Hill, subsequently he had charge 
of the parishes of Pickering and To 
ronto townships, Peel County, where 
he remained for over ten years, after 
which he took charge of the church at 
South Adgila. In 1889 he became 
1 t-an of Barrie, where lie remained 
until January, 1891, u hen lie was ap- 

:ited pastor of St. Helen s Church, 
with the title of Dean of Toronto. 
The numerous churches built by Father 

M&lt;ly will stand as monuments of 
his affectionate service and untiring 
energy in the prosecution of his work. 


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47 


^&lt;7T) EV - WILLIAM ARMSTRONG 
IV HUNTER, M. A., Toronto, was 
V born May 23rd, 1855, at 
Millbrook, Out. He was edncated at 
Peterboro Collegiate Institute, and in 
1873 entered the University of Toronto, 
where he graduated with honors in 
iS~7, taking the gold medal for mental 
and moral philosophy. In the entrance 
examination, he gained a scholarship 
for general proficiency, and took honors 
in classics, mathematics and modern 
languages, as also several valuable 
pri/es during his course in arts. In 
1^77 he entered upon the study of 
theology in Knox College, Toronto, 


where he graduated in iSSo. He also 
attended Union Theological Seminary, 
New York, where he also graduated. On 
November i6th, iSSo, he was ordained 
and inducted as pastor of the Parkdale 
Presbyterian Church, where he re 
mained until 1884, when he accepted a 
unanimous call to the church in 
Orangeville. In 1888 he was again 
called to Erskine Church, Toronto, as 
successor to the Rev. John Smith, 
where he has been successful in gather 
ing around him a large congregation. 
He was married i2th October, iSSi, to 
Lizzie, daughter of Captain William 
Chambers, of Woodstock, Out. 


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P WM. ELLIS, Toronto, 
was born in that city September 
nth, 1856. His father was 
W. II. Ellis, C.E., of Liverpool, Eng. 
Mr. Ellis was educated at the Toronto 
Mode. -1 School and Collegiate Institutes. 
At an early age he became apprenticed 
to the working jewellery business. In 
iS;2,in company with his twin brother. 
IK- founded the "firm of I&gt;. W. Elli* oc 
Co., wholesale jewellers, his brother. 
M. C. Ellis, being now president of the 
Canadian Association of Dealers in 
American Watches and Ca- The 

firm employ over one hundred hands, 
and do the largest jewellery bnsii; 


of the kind in Canada Mr. Ellis is a 
member and steward of the Eglinton 
Methodist Church, and takes an acti\e 
part in the affairs of the denomination, 
lie is also a member of the Board ot 
Trade, vice-president of the Canadian 
Manufacturers Association, and chair 
man of the Industrial Art and Design 
Committee, and has also been vice-; 
sident of the Toronto Yonn^ Men s 

Liberal-Conservative .tion. !! 

was married in l88o to J- .li/abeth K.. 
daughter of the late Jas. (iooderham. 
.Streetsville, ( )nt. Mr. Kllis gained his 
present honorable position by hoii- 
per&gt;e\-ering industry. 


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149 


. JAMES WOODSWORTH, 

uperinteiident of Methodist 
Missions in Manitoba and 
the North-West, was born in Toronto 
on the 3rd of May, 1843. He was 
married to Miss E. Josephine Shaver, 
of Etobicoke, on the i6th of June, 
1868. In June, 1864, he was received 
on probation for the ministry of the 
Methodist Church, and ordained in June, 
1868. He afterwards engaged in pas 
toral work in Ontario until 1882, when 
he was transferred to Manitoba, and 
stationed at Portage la Prairie. Mr. 
Woodsworth has during his ministry 
held many important offices, such as 
chairman of the Bracebridge 
district in 1880, and of the 
Portage la Prairie district 
from 1882 to 1887, and was 
a member of the General 
Conferences of 1882, 1883, 
1886 and 1890. At the 
General Conference of 1886 
he was appointed Superin 
tendent of Missions in the 
North-West, to which he 
was re-elected in 1890. He 
was president of the Mani 
toba and North-West Con 
ference for 1885-86, and 
has been elected one of 
the twelve ministerial dele 
gates from Canada to attend 
the Methodist Ecumenical 
Council in Philadelphia in 
1891. Mr. Woodsworth is 
a clear and forcible preacher, 
an earnest and untiring 
worker, and has done a great 
work in Manitoba and the 
Xorth-Wfst. His quadren 
nial report to the General 
Conference of 1890 showed 
a wonderful amount of pros 
perity and progress in the 
work committed to his 
charge, and depicted in elo 


quent language the vast possibilities of 
that great country, of which he may 
be regarded as the Methoclistic official 
head. He is a man of deep and ster 
ling piety, and enjoys the unqualified 
confidence of all his brethren, lay and 
clerical. He is enthusiastic concerning 
his field of labor, and expects that in 
the future Winnipeg will become com 
mercially and socially, what it is now 
geographically, the centre of the Do 
minion. In his addresses in the East, 
he has given a great deal of practical in 
formation, and disabused many minds of 
false notions concerning what he calls 
"The Canada of the future." 


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"VHWTi &gt;N ALBERT I nWKLL, 

- ^ * M.l&gt;., Toronto, was born at 
&gt;nt., on tlu- 3 ist January, 
&gt;O, and was married to Mary A. 
Thomas, May i5th, 1877. Ik- took his 
art course at Victoria College, Cobourg, 
and his medical course at Trinity Col 
lege, Toronto, where he gained the 
University medal in 1875. In the 
same year he attended Bellevue Hospi 
tal Medical College, New York, and 
received the " Mott " surgical prize. 
His preceptors were Drs. Clark and 
Wade, of Cobourg, and Dr. Frank H. 
Hamilton, of New York. Dr. Powell 
was one of the youngest volunteers at 


the Fenian Raid in 1866. After that 
lie took a eonrse and was graduated at 
the School of r.uuiK-ry. j K- i s a keen 
sportsman and lias always 1&gt;een fond 
of athletic pursuits. I &gt;r. 1 owell began 
])ractice at Fdgar, Sinieoe County, 
wlu-re he remained eleven years. In 
iSS6 he removed to Toronto, where he 
has acquired an excellent practiee. I !.- 
is a frequent contributor to medical 
journals, and has read many pa]. 
before medical societies. Dr. Powell 
comes of good old Methodist stock and 
is an active worker and church member. 
He is a thoroughly pronounced tem 
perance reformer, one of the founders 
and the second president of 
the Medical Student s Tem 
perance League, an organi- 
zatir n to which about half 
of the medical students in 
Toronto now belong. He was 
for three years treasurer of 
the Ontario Medical Associa 
tion, and for one year its 
vice-president. Among the 
many professional and re 
sponsible positions held by 
Dr. Powell, the following may 
be named : Lecturer on the 
Practice of Surgery in the 
Women s Medical College, 
Toronto ; Second Demon 
strator of Anatomy and 
Lecturer on Surgical Appli 
ances in Trinity Medical 
College, Coroner of the city 
of Toronto, curator of the 
Ontario Medical Library, 
first vice-president of tin- 
Toronto Medical Society, 
Surgeon to the Mas^i-y 
Manufacturing Compauv, 
Medical Fxamim-r of the 

nfederatiou Li 
lion, ineuilK-r of tli&lt;- Torunto 
Amateur Photographic A 
sociation. 


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(-^gi 
KORGK I-;. PATTISOX, Electric Street 
X Car manufacturer, St. Catharines, 
Out., was born September i6th, 1838, at Perth, 
Lanark County. He commenced his educa 
tion at the public school, Perth, and finished 
at the township of Drummond. After leaving 
school lie was apprenticed four years to car 
riage making, and afterwards followed that 
business as foreman of a carriage factory until 
1874, when he entered into partnership with 
\V. \V. V. Corbin, under the title of Pattison 
& Corbin. Their place of business is situated 
at Xi&gt;s. 4 and 6 Queenston street. In iXcjo 
they abandoned the manufacture of carriages, 
etc., and are now making a specialty of 
electric tram cars, which are fast gaining a 
wide reputation, being used in Hritish Colum 
bia, the North-West, and the principal cities 
of Ontario. In religion Mr. Pattison is a 
Presbyterian. In politics he is a Reformer. 
He is a member of the Masonic body, of the 
!.().( ).! ., and Home Circle. II,- was alderman 
for nine years and school trustee fifteen yi 
Hi- was married on February loth, I Xn; v to 
Ann, daughter of Jas. Harris, St. Catharines. 


\\ / \V. V. CORHIX, Kicctric Street Car 

V V manufacturer, St. Catharines, ( )nt., 
was born October i4th, 1X38, i 1 Xew York 
State, I .S.A. He received his education at 
the public schools of St. Catharines. After 
leaving school he decided to follow the mech 
anical line and was apprenticed four years 
to the business of carriage making, and con 
tinued in the same as journeyman and foreman 
until 1X65, when he began business on his 
own account. In 1X74 he formed a partner 
ship with G. Iv Pattison, under the title of 
Pattison iV Corbin. In 1X91. they gave up 
carriage building for the manufacture of eli-c 
trie tram cars, which they have now made a 
-Salty. Their buMiicss, which is now very 
large, extends to British Columbia, where their 
cars are used, and also in prominent cities in 
Ontario. Mr. Corbin is in religion a Metho 
dist, and in politics a Reformer. He is a 
member of the Masonic Brotherhood, also of 
the Odd Fellows, and numerous other societies. 
He was married on May jSth. iXhn, to Hannah, 
eldest daughter of J. Potts, of St. Catharines, 
( )ntario. 


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EARDLEY H. KOYL, M.A.,-: 
Niagara Falls, Out., was born at 
Centralia, Out. He is the second 
son of Rev. Ephraim L. Koyl, Methodist 
minister. He intended entering business life, 
but in 1878 felt called to the sacred ministry. 
He was admitted to the London district on 
probation and afterwards transferred to Brant- 
ford, and is thus a member of the Niagara 
Conference of the Methodist Church. With 
indefatigable energy he pushed his way 
through college, graduating with high honors 
in metaphysics in 1886. He also obtained the 
Pimshon prize, and was valedictorian for that 
He was ordained in Woodstock the 
of his graduation, and was afterwards 
stationed at Paris, Beamsville and Ingersoll. 
After which he was laid aside for a time on ac- 
nt of ill health, but has since been fully 
red. Mr. Koyl as a preacher is more than 
ordinarily attractive and impressive, being 
gifted with unusual oratorical powers, he can 
not fail to rise to a high ]&gt;osition in his church. 
He waa married August 2sth. i.ssi,. to Mi-s 
Leila Higclow, of Lindsay. Out. 


. ,1.\ THOMAS VOADKX, B.A., of 
1\ Cathcart, Ont., was lioni December 
V 2 9th. "857, at St. Thomas. He 
remained at home on his father s farm until 
eighteen years of age, after which he com 
menced teaching school. He received his 
education at the High School in St. Thomas, 
and at Victoria University, where he was a 
specialist in Hebrew. In 1875 he was con 
verted and at once joined the Methodist 
Church. It soon became evident to the church 
that he had qualifications for the ministry, and 
in 1876 was granted a local preacher s license. 
In 1878 he was received on probation by the 
London Conference. Before ordination he 
travelled the following circuits : South Cayu. 
Springfield and Bismarck. He was ordai;. 
in 1884 and was apjxrintcd to Sheffield circuit. 
\vlu-re lie remained two years. He then took 
a trip to Midland for his health, and returning, 
spent one year in Michigan, when he again 
returned to Ontario, and was apjMiintcd to his 
nt charge. Mr. Voadi-n : ;V e 

work for the church of his choii , . and is 
1 l&gt;y his ]&gt;eo])lc. 


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153 


&lt;T)OBERT JAFFRAY, J.P., Surry 
J[\ Lodge, Toronto, was born 23rd 
VS&gt; January, 1832, at " Skeoch 
Farm," near Bannockburn, Scotland. 
He was educated at Stirling Academy, 
and, when fifteen years of age, entered 
the establishment of J. R. Dymock, 
(now Dymock cc Guthrie, grocers, 
Edinburgh). In 1852 Mr. J affray came 
to Toronto, and in 1859 began business 
as wholesale and retail dealer in 
groceries and provisions, which he car 
ried on till 1883. He was married in 
1860 to Sarah, daughter of John Bugg, 
Toronto. During his active life he 
has been Government director of the 


Northern Railway, president of the 
Granite Curling Club, and at this date 
is vice-president of The Land Security 
Co., president of The Globe Printing 
Co., and of The Toronto Real Kstate 
Investment Co., director of The Toronto 
General Trust Co., of the Imperial 
Bank, of The Central Canada Loan & 
Savings Co., of The North American 
Life Assurance Co., and The Toronto 
Incandescent Electric Light Co. Has 
been for many years member of the 
Council of the Board of Trade, a mem 
ber of the Masonic- body, and an active 
Liberal in politics, being now president 
of The Toronto Reform Association. 


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IEV. \VM. \VP:BB PERCIVAL, 

M.A., Richmond Hill, York 
Count} , Out., was born at 
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 
on the 1 5th of November, 1841. He 
is descended of Scotch-Irish parentage. 
At the age of twelve he entered the 
in mar School of the Prince of 
Wales College, where he remained six 
years, and then studied for two years at 
Mount Allison Academy, Sackville, 
N.I!. lie received the decrees of P&gt;.A. 
and M.A. from a university in the 
United State-. Kor four years he was 
missionary in Bermuda, and then was 
ordained as a minister of the Methodist 


Church, on July 2nd, 1866, by the 
Rev. George Scott, D.D., of the British 
Wesleyau Conference. He held pas 
torates in succession in New U runs- 
wick, the city of St. John s, Nfld., and 
Victoria, B.C., where he remained for 
three years. Having changed his views 
on doctrine and politv, he resigned his 
ministry in the Methodist Church, and 
was received into the Presbyterian 
Church at the (ieneral Assembh 

S " ii after he was called to 
his present charge. Mr. Perch al was 
married on the 5th of July, iS66, to 
Annie, only daughter of Rev. Samuel 
Me Mast 


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155 


LFRED M. COSBY, 
Toronto, was born 
in the County of 
Welland on the nth Sep 
tember, 1840. His ances 
tors were U. E. Loyalists, 
who preferred pioneering in 
Canada under the old flag 
to citizenship under the 
Stars and Stripes. He was 
educated in Toronto, and 
took away from the schools 
ample knowledge for a suc 
cessful business life. Bank 
ing having most attractions 
for him, he entered the 
Bank of Toronto as clerk 
in 1 86 1, and after giving 
proof of industrious habits 
and excellent business 
ability, he was appointed 
manager of the branch at 
Port Hope. This position he 
held until 1876, when he re 
tired from banking life and 
was chosen to the manage 
ment of the London and 
Ontario Investment Com 
pany, where he has re 
mained as the head of this 
important business ever ^f 

since. It need hardly be 
said that he is regarded by all who 
know him as a man of rare business 
habits, energetic and pushing, while at 
the same time possessed of a clear head 
and sound judgment. He has in his 
veins a mixture of the Irish and Scotch 
elements, which, when properly blend 
ed, are of rare value to public men 
the impetuosity and fire of the one 
being tempered and restrained by the 
cool judgment and caution of the other. 
Mr. Cosby is a Liberal in politics, but 
lias never taken any prominent part, 
and sec-ins to have no desire for party 
strife. In religion lie belongs to the 
Presbyterian Church, as did his ances 


tors. He was married in 1870 to Clara 
A. Worts, daughter of J. G. Worts, of 
the widely known firm of Gooderham 
cc Worts, distillers, Toronto. As a 
resident of Toronto, he is an important 
acquisition to the mercantile and social 
life of the city, and in his own sphere 
less obtrusive perhaps than that of 
many others, has aided in its progress. 
Such sterling, straightforward business 
men, found at the head of so many of 
our monetary institutions, have given 
Canada a reputation for integrity and 
solidity above that of many other coun 
tries, That their number may never 
grow less is to be devoutly wished. 


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\/ERY REV. GEORGE MIGNON 

* IXXES, Dean of the Diocese of 
Huron, St. Paul s Cathedral, London, 
Out., was born at Weymouth, Dorset, 
England, on the 2ist January, 1826. 
He was married first in 1854 to Eliza 
beth Ann, daughter of Colonel Clarke, 
of the 76th Regiment, and second in 
7 to Annie, daughter of Daniel 
MrCallum, Esq., of Quebec. His 
father was the Rev. John Boutet Innes, 
an English clergyman, and his mother 
Mary Evans. Dean Innes was educat 
ed at Mill-Hill ColU-e. England, and 
at Sandhurst Militarv College, and is 
an M.A. i.f Bishop s College I nr 


shy. He entered the army 
in iX.jij. and served for over 
a period of twelve years in 
the Royal Canadian Rifles. 
from which he retired as 
captain in 1861. He then 
studied theology, and was 
ordained deacon at London 
in 1862 by the Bishop of 
Huron, and priest in the 
following year. He was 
then appointed incumbent 
of Christ Church, London, 
and in 1863 went to Quebec 
as assistant minister in the 
Cathedral, returning to Lon 
don in 1868 as assistant 
in the Cathedral there. In 
1869 he was appointed 
Canon of the Cathedral, in 
1871 Rector, and in 1888 
Dean of Huron. He has 
held many other important 
offices, such as Commissary 
and Administrator of the 
Diocese of Huron for Bishop 
Hellmuth and Bishop Bald 
win, and Commissary in 
Huron for the Bishop of 
Algoma. Dean Innes is a 
man of liberal scholarship, 
very zealous in the work of 
the Gospel, and is beloved and respect 
ed, not only by the members of the 
Anglican Church, but by every Christian 
denomination. I le is a model parochial 
pastor, throwing his whole heart and soul 
into his work, and sympathising with 
his flock in their varied circumstances. 
As a preacher he is pleasing and 
impressive, thoroughly Evangelical i.i 
his theology, and fearless in setting 
forth the Gospel. His congregation 
is large, and his infltu-nei- for good 
felt far beyond the eity of London. 
h men are the light of the 
world and the. hope of Christian 
civilization. 


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ISAAC JAMES BIRCHARD, M. A., 
Ph.D., mathematical master in the 
Brantford Collegiate Institute, was 
born at Uxbridge, Out., October nth, 
1850. His early life was spent npon 
the farm, but being very fond of books, 
all his spare moments were devoted to 
study. At the age of fifteen he ob 
tained a first-class teacher s certificate, 
from which time his energies were 
devoted to educational pursuits. He 
attended the Normal School, Toronto, 
distinguishing himself as a teacher, 
and winning the Provincial gold medal 
in 1874. Six years later he obtained 
the B.A. degree, with first-class honors, 
from Toronto University, 
and the Ph.D. degree from 
Syracuse University in 1884. 
Since that time he has done 
considerable original work 
in mathematics, being joint 
author of two works in 
Algebra, and sole author of 
a work on Trigonometry. 
His books are extensivelv 
used throughout Ontario 
and the North-West, and 
have received the distin 
guished honor of a flatter 
ing review in the leading 
mathematical journal in 
Germany. As a teacher he 
has been especially success 
ful in each of the positions 
he has held. He was prin 
cipal of one of the large 
public schools in Toronto 
for five years, which he te- 
signed to enter upon Col 
legiate Institute work. He 
lias always taken a very 
active interest in teachers 
associations, both county 
and provincial, and is the 
present secretary of the 
High School Teachers As 
sociation for Ontario. He 


is an official member of the First 
Methodist Church, the efficient super 
intendent of its Sunday School, and an 
ex-president of the City Sunday School 
Association. A diligent biblical student 
himself, reading the sacred text in 
Greek and Hebrew, he is also an en 
thusiastic worker in organizing and 
conducting conventions and normal 
classes for the improvement of Sunday 
School teachers. Dr. Birchard is a 
Past Master and the present secretary 
of Brant Lodge A.F. & A.M., and also 
a Royal Arch Mason. He was married 
December ijth, 1870, to Miss Bertha 
Chapman, of Kingston, Out. 


MKN &lt; &gt;K c. \N.\I &gt;.\. 


T^RED. I 1 .. CTMHERLANI), M.A., 
^1 Toronto, wax horn :it Portsmouth, 

Kni;,. on the 5th of August, : 
his father being the late Fred. \\". 
Cumberland, general manager of the 
Northern Railway of Canada. He was 
brought to Canada when 10 months old. 
I le was educated at the Model Grammar 
School, Toronto, at Cheltenham, Col 
lege, England, and Trinity University, 
Toronto, of which he holds the degree 
of M.A. After his college course he 
entered the Law Society and became a 
student in the office of Osier and Moss. 
Preferring business to law, he went 
into Railway construction under Alex. 


Manning, and afterwards entered the 
service of the great Western Railway 
. then under the management of \\ . 
K. Muir. He was afterwards general 
freight and passenger agent of the 
Northern Railroad for six years, and 
then going into steamboating, organ i/ed 
the Niagara Navigation Co., and was 
manager of the Collingwood and Lake 
Superior Line of Steamships for eleven 
years. He established the General 
Tourist Ticket office in Toronto, and 
is agent for the largest tourist and 
steamship companies in England, 
America, and in all parts of the world. 
Mr. Cumberland belongs to the Episco 
pal Church, and is one of 
its representatives at the 
Synod of Toronto. He is 
president of the St. George s 
Society, an office-holder in 
the Sons of England, vice- 
president of the Niagara 
Navigation Co., president of 
Toronto and Mimico Elec 
tric R.R. Co., president of 
the National Club, Toronto, 
chairman of the Marine 
Section, and a member of 
the Council of the Toronto 
Board of Trade. Mr. Cum 
berland is one of the most 
prominent and popular citi 
zens of the Queen City. 
To his fostering hand To 
ronto owes a great increase 
of the water traffic which 
comes and goes from her 
docks. He is sort of " guar 
dian to the Grenadiers," the 
regiment founded by his 
father, and in whose ranks 
he himself served as prh ate, 
and retired as captain. Hi 
is a representative Canadian. 
His motto is " 1 )&lt;, minion 
bet vince Canada 

Tinted and Firs; 


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159 


H|H. STINSON, solicitor, Hamil- 
* ton, Out., was born December 
16, 1860, in that city. He was educat- 
ed at Gait Collegiate Institute under 
the well-known Dr. Tassie. Studied 
law with Bruce, Walker and Burton, 
and enrolled in 1882. He is known 
throughout Canada as an enthusiastic 
sportsman, an excellent cricketer, and 
well up in football, racquet, and aquatic 
sports. He is one of the most popular 
young men in Hamilton, and has held 
the highest offices in the various athletic 
associations. He is also one of the 
largest property holders in the citv, 
and kind and considerate to his tenants. 


In 1889 he was elected alderman, and 
polled the largest vote ever recorded. 
In 1890 he was candidate for the 
Ontario Legislature against the Hon. 
J. M. Gibson, Provincial Secretary, and 
returned by a majority of 86, being the 
first Conservative elected for Hamilton 
to that body since Confederation. This 
election was contested and Mr. Stinson 
unseated. At the Bye-election, after a 
plucky fight, his opponent was re 
turned. Mr. Stinson was married on 
the 4th of October, 1882, to Agnes, 
daughter of the late Charles James 
Hope. In politics he is a Conserva 
tive, and in religion an Episcopalian. 


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CANADA. 


JAMES ARCH. MACDONALD, 
barrister, Toronto, was born 
on the ist of September, 1863, 
in that city. By parentage he is 
Scotch. He received his elementary 
education at the public schools, and 
finished under private tutors. At the 
of twenty Mr. Macdonald was one 
(it the finest specimens of Canadian 
manhood, and considered one of the 
best athletes. He was one of the 
Toronto Lacrosse Club, when it gained 
the championship of the world. lie 
began the study of law in iSSa with 
the firm of Mo.ss oc Co., :md was called 
to the Bar in 1887. He then entered 


into partnership with W. B. McMurrich, 
Q.C., until 1889, when he began prac 
tice for himself. His success at the 
Bar has been very marked, and his 
services sought after in some of the 
most important criminal cases, such as 
that of Kane, who murdered his wife in 

9, and Byron, who murdered Wade, 
in the Mimico tragedy of 1890, which 
cases, together with his recent appear 
ance in the c&lt; of Taylor 

Johnston and Mas^ey, brought him 
prominently before the public. His 
future promises to be a brilliant one. 
In religion Mr. Macdonald is a liberal- 
minded Presbyterian. 


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161 


JAS. BEATY, Q.C., 
D. C.L., Toronto, 
born at " Ashdale " 
farm, Trafalgar, County of 
Halton, loth Nov., 1831. 
His father, John Beaty, 
came from Ireland in 1818, 
died in 1870, aged 80. His 
mother, Elizabeth Stewart, 
came from Bun Doran, Ire 
land, to New York, and in 
1812 came with her father 
to Canada, who preferred 
British rule. James Beaty 
was educated at the Gram 
mar vSchool in Palermo and 
in Toronto, preparatory to 
entering as student-at-law 
in 1850. Was called to the 
Bar in 1855, having studied 
under Sir Adam Wilson and 
Dr. Larratt Smith. In 1856 
formed partnership with 
Mr. Wilson and Mr. C. S. 
(Judge) Patterson, under 
the firm name of Wilson, 
Patterson & Beaty. Since 
then, on account of the ele 
vation of the senior partners 
to the Bench, various mem 
bers have been received into 
the firm, and it is now Beaty, 
Hamilton & Snow, but the business, 
through Dr. Baldwin, Hon. Robert 
Baldwin and others, has continued in 
succession for So years. Mr. Beaty 
was created Q.C. in 1872, and in 1875 
Trinity conferred upon him D.C.L. 
In 1877 he was elected alderman for 
Toronto, and in 1879 mayor, and re- 
elected in 1880. It was during his 
mayoralty that the Marquis of Lome, 
Governor-General, and the Princess 
Louise made an official visit to the city. 
In the second year of his mayorallv he 
was elected M.I , for \Yest Toronto, and 
again in i8,S:&gt; re-elected. Mr. Beaty 
has a large practice in the law. Has 


promoted many companies some of 
them important institutions now. Is a 
Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario. 
In religion, claims simply to be a 
Christian, no creed but the Bible. He 
is a versatile and forcible writer and 
speaker. Has contributed to political, 
legal, financial and religious magazines 
and papers, and is author of a notable 
book "Paying the Pastor: I T nscrip- 
tural and Traditional." He was mar 
ried on the loth of November, iXvS, to 
Miss Fanny Beaty. Of two daughters 
of the marriage, only one is living, 
married to Mr. A. J. Russel Snow, 
barrister-at-law. 


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MIX or CAN \ i . \. 


I jEV. HUGH JOHNSTON, M.A., 
|V D.D., Toronto, was born in the 

V^ township of Southwold, Out., 
January 5th, 1840. He attended the 
public school at Fingal, and, with 
literary tastes and ambitions, entered 
the Normal School, Toronto, where, at 
the age of seventeen, he obtained a 
first-class certificate. He at once took 
charge of the Select School, Arkona, 
Lambton County, which he taught for 
a year very successfully. Here a 
change came over his life and he com 
menced liis studies for the ministry of 
the Methodist Church, entering Victoria 
Co! from which he gra 


duated in iSu.) as medalist 
UK! valedictorian. 1 Ie was 
then ordained and appointed 
to Toronto. In iS(&gt;(. In- IR-- 
v"ime assistant to Rev. ! 
I )oiiglas, Montreal, and the 
following three years labored 
in Windsor, Out., when In- 
received and accepted a 
second call to Toronto. His 
next appointment was to the 
Centenary Church, Hamil 
ton. At the end of three 
years he became pastor of 
Wesley Church in that city, 
which church, under his 
charge, was erected into a 
large and beautiful edifice. 
In 1878 an urgent request 
was sent from the Quarterly 
Official Board of St. James 
Street Church, Montreal, 
asking for his transference 
to the Montreal Conference, 
which was granted. In 1882 
he was transferred from 
Montreal to the Metropoli 
tan Church, Toronto. After 
completing his term here, 
he was called to the Carle- 
ton Street Church, and is 
now pastor of Trinity 
Church in that city. He was president 
of the Toronto Conference in 1889, and 
secretary of conferences for the two 
years previous. He is a member of the 
Board and Senate of Victoria University, 
and also of the Board of the Montreal 
Theological College. Mr. Johnston is 
a very forcible and successful preacher. 
and he also wields a very able and very 
graceful pen. The well-known and 
able book, "Toward the Sunrise," is 
from his pen, and has already reached tin- 
third edition. His " Lite .f I unshon " 
has also had a wide circulation. In 
1X76 he married Kli/a, daughter of 
Aid. Richard Holland, Montreal. 


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163 


G. W. ROSS, 

LL.B., M. P. P., 

Minister of Edu 
cation for Ontario, was born 
near Nairn, in the County 
of Middlesex, on the iSth 
of September, 1841. He is 
of Scotch parentage, a fact 
that doubtless accounts for 
his indomitable persever 
ance in reaching his present 
responsible position. In 
boyhood he attended the 
public schools, and in 1857 
obtained a third-class count} 
certificate, on which he 
taught two years. In 1859 
he obtained a second-class, 
and in 1876 a first-class cer 
tificate. Two years later he 
attended the Normal School, 
Toronto, and obtained in 
1871 a first-class Provincial 
certificate. He was then 
appointed Public School In 
spector for Lambton, and 
subsequently also for the 
towns of Petrolea and 
Strathroy. While inspector 
he was the recipient of pre 
sentations and addresses for 
his marked ability. After 
this he devoted his attention to the 
establishment of County Model schools, 
which have been of such value in late 
years. For a time Mr. Ross engaged 
in journalism on the Strathroy Age 
and If KI-DJI Ji.i-/)ositor, his intimate 
knowledge of public questions being of 
great advantage to him in this profes 
sion. He also conducted, along with 
Mr. McCall, of Strathroy, The Ontario 
Teacher. In 1879 ne turned his atten 
tion to law and obtained the degree 
of LL.B. from Albert University, and 
more recently has been admitted to the 
Mar. In Reform politics he has long 
been a prominent figure. He was first 


elected M.P. for West Middlesex in 
1872, two years afterwards by acclama 
tion, and again returned in 1878 and 
1882, although in the following year 
he lost his seat for the alleged bribery 
of agents. In November, 1883, he was 
appointed Minister of Education and 
elected by West Middlesex to the Local 
Legislature. A ready debater, incisive 
speaker, a wonderful condenser of facts 
and a progressive administrator. He 
received the degree of LL-D. from St. 
Andrew s University, Scotland, in iSS;. 
He was first married to Miss Campbell, 
of Middlesex, who died in 1X72, and 
again in 1875 to Miss Boston, of Lobo. 


Mix OK CANAI &gt; \. 


CHARLES CARPMAEL, M.A., 
I w F.R.S.C., F.R.A.S., late Fellow 
^^-^s&gt; of St. John s College, Cam 
bridge, director of the Magnetic Ob 
servatory, Toronto, and director of the 
Meteorological Service of the Dominion 
of Canada, was born September igth, 
1X46, at Streatham Hill, Surrey, Eng. 
His parents were William Carpmael 
and Sarah, whose maiden name was 
Pitt, his father being well known as a 
patent agent. Mr. Carpmael was edu 
cated at Clapham Grammar School. 
IK gave his attention particularly to 
the study of mathematics and natural 
and experimental sciences. In i 


he obtained a scholarship 
at St. John s College. Cam 
bridge, and went into 
deuce in that institution the 
same year. His studies 
during the next three \&lt; 
were almost entirely mathe 
matical. In 1868 he ob 
tained a foundation scholar 
ship, and in January, i, v 
he entered for the mathe 
matical tripos, and was 
classed sixth in the list of 
wranglers. The following 
year he devoted to the study 
of chemistry and physics, 
and for the next year and 
one-half he studied law. 
In 1870 he was elected 
Fellow of St. John s College, 
and the same year he was 
a member of the British 
Eclipse Expedition to Spain. 
Mr. Carpmael has taken a 
deep interest in volunteer 
movements, and has been a 
member of the corps. He 
has also been a great travel 
ler, having visited France, 
Holland, North Germany, 
Switzerland, the North of 
Italy and Spain at various 
times. He first visited the United 
States and Canada in 1871, and re 
mained until 1872. During this tour 
he visited Toronto, which visit led to 
his ultimately settling in Canada. He 
was married in June, 1876, to Julia, 
youngest daughter of Walter McKen/ie, 
of Castle Frank, Toronto, Clerk of the 
C&lt;&gt;nnty Court. In religion he is .-in 
Anglican. Mr. Carpmael \v:is on the 
first council of the Royal Society of 
Canada, appointed by the Marquis of 
Lome, and in 1886 became president 
of Section 3 of that so nd in 

3 he was appointed president of the 
Canadian Institute. 


CANADA. 


1 65 


7t NDRKW JOS. McDONAGH 
~^~\ L.D.S., 274 Spadlna Avenue, 
^ Toronto, Out., was born on 
I Ybmary i6th, 1867,111 Lanark County, 
Out., and is the son of the late Patrick 
M. McDonagh, fanner and Justice of 
the Peace of that place. Dr. McDonnell 
received his earlier education at the 
public schools and afterwards at Napanee 
High .School. In 1X84 he entered the 
Royal College of Dental Surgeons of 
&lt; )ntario, Toronto, and graduated in 
18X7. [mmediately after completing 
his studies he established himself in 
his profession on Spadina Avenue, 
where he has in a very short time suc 


ceeded in building up a large and lucra 
tive practice, which is daily increasing. 
Dr. McDouagh is a member of the 
Roman Catholic Communion, and also 
belongs to St. Vincent de Paul and 
other charitable societies. On the I2th 
of 1 Ybruary, iXXi), lie married Maggie 
1C. () ]&gt;yrne, daughter of Lawrence 
O Byrne, merchant, of Toronto. Dr. 
McDonagh is of Irish parentage, his 
father being born in (ialway, Ireland, 
but he emigrated to Canada when &lt;|iiite 
a young man, and attained honorable 
distinction in this country. His mother 
was Catherine McDonnell, who also 
comes from an Irish family. 


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MEN 01 CANADA 


JA. RADFORD, O.S.A., archi 
tect, author and artist, Toronto, 
was born in the city of Devon- 
port, Devonshire, the garden of Eng 
land. For some years he studied draw 
ing in the Mechanics Institute, which 
:it that time was a branch of the world- 
famed South Kensington School of 
Art. Coining to Montreal at an early 
age. IK- attended the Government School 
of Ik-sign, and tlu-re completed his 
mechanical education, taking honors. 
Mr. Radford as a designer, colorist 
and draughtsman, lias few peers, hav 
ing won numerous competitions. The 
most noted of these, probably, being 


the last "Ice Palace," Montreal, of 
which large and beautiful photographs 
are seen in many Canadian and conti 
nental homes. He is a particularly 
energetic member of the Ontario Society 
of Artists and Toronto s Architectural 
Club, and is known as a traveller 
and writer of short stories. lu-ing 
now in the prime of life, he will, doubt 
less, have great opportunities of elect 
ing the public mind and taste in the 
artistic interior decorations of their 
magnificent palatial residences, which 
of necessity are bound to be erected 
as the opulence and population of our 
country advance. 


OF- CANADA. 


167 


M. TRP:ADGOLD. 


"11 , TREADGOLD, Mayor of 

jL&gt; I Brampton, Out., was born on the 22iid 
v&gt; of December, 1841, in Northampton 
shire, England. He was educated at the public 
schools of England, and the Public High School 
and Normal School, Toronto. After teaching- 
school in Toronto Gore for ten years, he began 
business in Brampton in 1873 as dealer in house 
hold furniture, musical instruments, etc., in which 
he has been most successful. His intelligent in- 
U-ivst in public affairs, and his broad grasp of 
matters affecting the welfare of the community, 
resulted in his repeated election to the Town 
Council for many years, and in iSyi was elected 
mayor. Mayor Treadgold is a member, class 
1 ader, trustee and superintendent of the Sunday 
School in the Methodist Church, has been a local 
preacher for thirty years, and has filled every 
office of importance open to laymen. lie is in 
politics a Liberal, is a member of the Masonic 
Brotherhood, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, A.O.U. Workmen, Select Knights and 
Other organizations. In 1866 he was married to 
Mary A., daughter of Wm. Dobson, of Toronto 
Gore, 1 eel County, Out. 


"It 7TALCOLM WEETHE3 SPARROW, 
JLV I L.D.S., Toronto, Out., was born on 
V~&gt; August nth, 1862, at Athens, Ohio, 
U.S.A. He is a son of Thomas W. Sparrow, 
M,I&gt;.. and Lydia A. Weethee, B.S. He came to 
Canada in 1879. His education began in the 
public school of Athens, but at the age of thirteen, 
owing to financial difficulties at home, he deter 
mined to provide for himself. He learned the 
printing business, and finally became associate 
editor upon the journal he began with as a news 
boy. Coming to Canada, he continued his occu 
pation now as a " typo," now as a reporter, then 
again as an editor when failing health compelled 
him to relinquish his vocation altogether. His 
education has been acquired by the faithful 
improvement of midnight hours and leisure 
moments. He comes of a literary family his 
uncle, Rev. J. P. Weethee, LL.IX, being a pro 
minent lecturer and author in the United States, 
and a contributor to Canadian and American 
periodicals. Mr. Sparrow has since become a 
member of the Royal College of Dental 
Surgeons of Ontario, and has a splendid 
dental practice. 


\&gt; I.J-.TIU-.I; M .\KKO\V, 


MI N OF 


I.(-:XAXII:R SCOTT ci&lt;riKSHA\K 

i -eiitiully a self- made in. in. He w.is 
VS ..MI iii H.uifTshire. Scotland, in 
and U-ft the parMi .s,-ho,,l at thirteen to 
his father s farm. At twenty ho emigrated t &gt; 
ula, where he was first employed as earjx.ii 
Ur. then as book-keeper, music master, and 
public school teacher. Entering the prof, 
with a second-class certificate, three mouths at 
Hillsdale College, Michigan, qualified him for a 
first, under which he taught in Princeton, Oak 
land, Brautford and Ancaster. In 1870 he was 
engaged to train, in practical subjects, a division 
of unclassified youths in the Central School, 
Hamilton. This position he held till 1880. when 
he was appointed principal of the Hess Street 
1, and head master of a district now com 
prising thirty teachers and fifteen hundred pupils. 
In 1883 he married Annie, only daughter of 
T. Chalmers, merchant, Conihill, Banffshire. He 
is a memlier of the Presbyterian Church, and is at 
present vice-president of the Hamilton Teacher s 
Association. Mr. Cruikshank has lx.-en an 
extensive traveller, and a frequent contri 
butor to local and educational journals. 


Kl .V. K. \VAI.r..\CK. 


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KV. ROBERT WALLACE, Presbyterian 
Church, Toronto, was lx&gt;rn at Castle- 
- blaney, Ireland, April 25th, 1820. 
His ancestors came originally from Ayrshire, 
Scotland. He studied during 1838, 1839 and 

1840 at Hamilton under Dr. Rae, and during 

1841 with Rev. William Rintoul at Streetsville. 
He entered Queen s College in 1842, and, at the 

disruption in Scotland, left that institution and 
joined the Free Church of Canada, formed in June, 

1844. He then studied theology under Dr. King 
and Mr. Esson the first year of Knox College, 
Toronto. He labored in the mission field during 

1845, and in July, 1846, was settled at Keene, 
then ministered to the church at Niagara during 
the summer of 1848, and afterwards was 

in Ingersoll in January, 1849. In 1862 1. 
cx-pted a call to Thorold and Dniumiondvilk, and 
in iso7 to the West Church. Toronto, retiring in 

ugularly 

I, the memlH.-rship under li viiig 

reached seven him. Ire 1 and sixty. Mr. \V 

!k r temp jilent 

writer for the ;nlx-r 

jrd, 1*50, to M.IIA Aiiui 


MEN OK CANADA. 


169 


l-KKDKKICK M MOKSOX. 


_x 

b&gt;RKI&gt;KRICK 
P rister, Ton 


MONTYK MORSON, bar- 
Toronto, Out., was born October 
22iid, 1853, at Chambly, Que., the son of 
Frederick Morson, Ksq., M.D., M.R.C.S., Lon 
don, Kng. He was educated at Niagara Gram 
mar School and Trinity College, Toronto, where 
he graduated with honors in 1872. He then en 
tered the law office of Blake, Kerr & Cassels. 
and was called to the bar in 1877. He after 
wards entered into partnership with Martin & 
Parker, in Hamilton, and in i*-X with N. Gordon 
lii-i-low, Q.C., Toronto, the firm now being 
Bigclow, Morson & Smyth. Mr. Morson has 
acted for the past three years as Deputy Judge 
for UK- County of York during the absence of 
the regular judge, and also in the Division Court, 
both in the city and County of York. He is a 
member of the Knglish Church, a P.M. of Ionic 
Knd-e A. F. \- A. Masons, Toronto, Past Grand 
Registrar of the Masonic Grand Lodge of 
Canada, one of the Principals of Antiquity 
Ri Mil Arch Chapter, and Constable in Cyrene 
I reccptai v ol" Knight Templars, also a director 
of the Albany Club. A man of clear judgment 
and sound principles. 


"jl /TATTHK\Y HUTCHISON, of the firm 
jL_&gt; I of Ogilvies & Hutchison, millers, 
V^&gt; Goderich, Out., was born at Largs, 
Scotland, May ijth, 1827. He came with his 
parents to Canada in 1833, and was educated at 
Dr. Black s private school in Montreal. He 
worked on his father s farm near that city until 
he was twenty-five years of age, when he began 
business as a baker in Montreal. He was then 
appointed Deputy Flour Inspector, and continued 
in that position for 20 years, and, latterly, Chief 
Inspector. He then entered into his present 
partnership with A. XV. Ogilvies & Co., the most 
widely known merchant millers in the Dominion of 
Canada, and has charge of the Goderich business. 
He has held office in the town and county councils, 
and but for his large and increasing trade connec 
tions, would have had the highest civic honors 
of his townsmen. He is a Liberal-Conservative in 
politics, and an active member of the Presbyterian 
Church. He \v;:s married on the 25th October, 
1854, to Miss Helen Ogilvie, of Montreal. His 
family consists of five children three 
daughters and two sons all of whom 
are living. 


MAT HIKVV 1U"IYII|!-.ON. 


M i:x 


CANAI &gt;A. 


I .KXJAM IX LIVINOS1ON 
COHOl ton. Out., was bora 

S ^~ -it Lobo. He re 

-1 his primary education at the public school 
of his birthpl. cc, his teacher for 

&lt;".. W Ros-.. present Minister of Education 
ntario, and finished in classics, mathematics. 
etc., at Komoka Seminary, under Messrs. John 
and Alexander Moffatt. He obtained teacher s 
certificates, on which he taught five years in 
London township. In 1871 he entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church on 
probation, and was ordained deacon in 1873, and 
Elder in 1875. Since his ordination he has oc 
cupied the following circuits : Canlx&gt;ro, Pelham, 
Ancaster, Flamboro , Brant, Courtland, Mounts- 
l&gt;erg. Before the union of the Wesleyan Metho 
dist and Episcopal Methodist churches, he was 
for several years secretary of Niagara District M . E. 
Church. Mr. Cohoe served five years in the 26th 
Battalion of the Canadian Volunteer Force under 
Lieut. -Colonel Atwood. and during the Fenian 
Raid was quartered at Windsor. He 
was married December 27th, 1869, to 
Bessie Leng, of Middlesex County. 


A. r.AKll; 


;r LEXAN 

;j-\ Out., 
VJ atD 


GARTSHORE, Hamilton, 
son &lt;&gt;f John Gartshore, was l&gt;orn 
Dundas, Novenilwr i8th, 1839. He 
\\ as &lt;_ ilui -ated at the Grammar schools of Ancaster, 
Guelph, Hamilton and Dundas. After receiving 
a thorough education, he decided to acquire 
practical knowledge and entered as apprentice 
at West Point foundry, New York, remaining 
there from 1854 to 1858. Returning to Dundas. 
he went into business with his father, when he 
removed in 1870 to Hamilton, where he was first 
engaged in making castings for railways, until in 
1876 he began the making of cast iron pipes for 
water, sewer and gas purposes. The business 
has now become very extensive, amounting to 
over twelve thousand tons per annum, ami nn- 
pl -ying one hundred and fifty men. Mi &lt; 
shore is a memtwr of the Central Preshy 
Church, was manager for a piri.M &lt;.f five 
and is at present a trustee. He u.is , 
June nth. i.sr,6, to M&gt;&gt; N.tUl Heii-lri. . Mr. 
r.artshti:. rvative in jM.litii s. and a 

member of the Ma-nnie body, and is MIH- of the 
most highly i men of the flour 

ishing &lt; ity of Hamilton. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


171 


G-^3&gt; 
H. BISBV, of Long & Bisby, Hamil- 
ton, Ont., was born at West Win- 
field, Herkimer County, New York, on the 
2oth of March, 1836. His father was Julius 
Bisby, of that place. He received his educa 
tion at the public schools of West Winfield. 
Leaving school in 1854, he entered with his 
father into the general mercantile trade, which 
he abandoned in 1857, and was appointed 
toller and book-keeper in the Bank of West 
Winfield, which position he filled with every 
satisfaction to the bank, retaining it until 
1862. He then came to Canada and became 
hook -keeper for the Canada Felt Hat Works 
until the retirement of the firm in 1864. He 
then became partner of the firm of A. L. 
\Voodruff & Co. until 1867, when it was 
dissolved, then entered into partnership with 
Mr. Long, whose portrait appears on this 
page. The business is now one of the largest 
of the kind in Canada. Mr. Bisby is in religion 
a Unitarian, and in politics a Protectionist. 
He was married on the I5th of December, 
iSoo, to Jennie A., daughter of ] . ( ,. I.ong, 
of Farmington, ivlo., I .S. 


~V\ /ILLIAM DITBART LONG, of the 
V \ firm of Long 6t Bisby. wool mer 
chants, Hamilton, Out., was born at Farming- 
ton, Missouri, U.S., November iSth, 1840. 
He is the eldest son of P. G. and Isabella M. 
Long, of that place. He was educated at the 
public schools of Farmington, after which, in 
1854, he engaged in farming and the tannery 
business under his father, and was afterwards 
engaged for a time in steam-boating on the 
Osage River, after which he travelled in the 
South-Western States in the interest of 
McClurg, Murphy & Co., of Lynn Creek, 
Missouri, until 1802, when lie left the United 
States for Canada. He then accepted a POM 
tion in the wool business, which he retained 
until 1807, when the firm retired, and he. with 
his present partner, Mr. Mishy, took it up. 
and which still continues under the name 
of Long \- Bisby. The business under its 
present enterprising management has grown 
to large proportions, and has held the confi 
dence &lt;&gt;f the public for a quarter of a century. 
In politics Mr. Long belongs to the Conserva 
tive or Protectionist party. 


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CANADA. 


TRTHUR JAMES HUSBAND, L.D.S., 

_^ \ Toronto, was l&gt;orn on the 22iid of 
V June, 1864. His father is G H. 
Husband, L.D.S., Newtonbrook, Out., and 
his mother s maiden name Ellen McBride. 
He was educated in the public and high 
schools of Richmond Hill, and afterwards, in 
1880, began the study of dentistry in thg 
office of R. J. Zimmerman, Barrie. In 1883 
he entered the Royal College of Dental Sur 
geons, Toronto, and graduated in 1884, but, 
on account of his youth, he was not permitted 
to practice until 1885, when he received his 
diploma. In 1884 he went to the State of 
Michigan, and afterwards practiced consecu 
tively in Michigan, Kansas and Colorado. In 
he returned to Canada and established 
himself in Toronto, where he has succeeded 
already in building up a very large and most 
lucrative business. In reli-i.ui Dr. Husband 
\[. thodist and a incmU-r of Ouccn Street 
Church, and in ]&gt;liti&lt; s belongs to the Reform 
party. He w.is married in July, ixxs, tu 
Elizabeth Henry, daughter . I Samuel Henry, 
of tl. : Illinois. T.S.A 


RAXCIS JAMES ROCHE, M.A., bar 
rister, Toronto, was born at \Vhitby, 
Ont., on the loth of Octol&gt;er, 1865. 
His father was the late John Richmond Roche, 
M.A., Professor of Mathematics in Newton 
University, Baltimore, Md. He is descended 
from the oldest Norman-Irish family, Sir 
Richard de la Roche having been one of 
Strongbow s invading army Mr. Roche was 
educated by private tuition, and afterwards at 
the Toronto Collegiate Institute, Trinity and 
University Colleges. He graduated in 1886 
in Toronto University, taking honors in 
natural science, and obtained the degree of 
M.A. the following year. During his course 
he was first-class honor man and pri/c man. 
He studied law with Maclaren, Mardouald, 
Merritt & Shepley, Toronto, and was ad 
mitt Ik-itor and called to the H.ir in 

/. His practice is exclusively confined to 
mercantile law, in which he holds a fon i 
place. In reli.ui m, Mr. Roche is an Ep: 
palian, and in ]&gt;litics a I,i1&gt;eral-C 
He holds a commission as captain in the 3 
Ontario Battalion of Infantry. 


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CANADA. 


73 


*^ 

[HE LATE JOHN 
A HARRIS, president 
of the firm of A. Harris, 
Son & Co. (limited), Brant- 
ford, Ontario, was born in 
Boston, Townsend Town 
ship, Norfolk County, on 
the 2ist of July, 1841, and 
died in Brartford on the 
the 25th of August, 1887. 
He was the grandson of the 
Rev. John Harris and the 
Rev. Thomas Morgan, both 
Baptists and men of eminent 
ability. In his sixteenth 
year his father, Mr. Alan- 
son Harris, moved to Beams- 
ville; where John attended 
the grammar school. In 
his eighteenth year lie made 
a profession of faith and 
united with the Baptist 
Church in that place. On 
the 1 4th of October, 1863, 
he was married to Alice 
Jane Tufford, who still 
survives him. After his 
marriage he entered into 
partnership with his father, 
under the style of A. 
Harris & Son, and the 
business having increased 
rapidly, they removed in 
Brantford, where the firm 
larged and styled by its 
name. He enjoyed the 
tiou of the hundreds of 
and, as one remarked 


1872 


to 

was en- 
present 
sincere affec- 
his workmen, 

one remarked at his death, 
" Seemed more anxious concerning their 
spiritual welfare than their work or 
wages." He occupied important offices 
in the church, and taught a large Bible 
class. He was president of the Young 
Men s Christian Association for two 
successive years, president of the Bible 
Society, alderman, and chairman of the 
finance committee of the City Council. 
Some years before his death, declining 


fct, 


health compelled him to desist from 
some of his manifold Christian duties. 
Hoping that a sea voyage would estab 
lish his health, he went to England, 
and subsequently to Clifton Springs, 
N.Y., but all these efforts were unavail 
ing. ( )n the 6th of August he returned 
to his home, where lie lingered on the 
border land before he crossed the Jordan 
of death, speaking loving words to his 
family and friends. During his trying 
sickness he never murmured, but waited 
with Christian patience the time of his 
departure. He has left behind a pre 
cious memory and an example of honor 
and Christian manhood. 


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MEN 


CANADA. 


^^TVVrRICK McPHILLIPS, bar- 
\ rister, solicitor, notary public, 
etc., London, Out., was born 
&lt;Sth March, 1857, &gt; n the township of 
Markham. He left home at eleven 
years of age, attending Fairfield 
Academy first, and afterwards St. 
Michael s College, Toronto. He also 
received additional private tuition in 
classics. He matriculated in law, and 
ame a member of the Law Society 
in 1X75, and was called to the Bar 
in iSSo. He was four years in the 
office of W. R. Meredith, Q.C. and 
M.I . I ., and then entered the office of 
Hector Cammm, Q.C., Toronto, as 


managing clerk. In ll 
lie entered into partnership 
with him under the firm 
of Cameron cc McPhillips, 
which continued nine years. 
Mr. McPhillips then prac 
ticed alone in Toronto until 
1891, when he remo\ed to 
London. The firm of Ca 
meron & McPhillips v 
solicitors for many of t In- 
large corporate bodies, such 
as the Grand Junction Rail 
way, Belleville and North 
Hastings Rail way, Canadian 
Pacific (during construc 
tion), Old Dominion, Mont 
real and Great Western 
Telegraph Companies, and 
Ontario solicitors for the 
Western Union Telegraph 
Company, of New York. 
Mr. McPhillips has been 
engaged in some of the 
moat important law cases of 
the past ten years, several 
of which were argued before 
the Privy Council in Eng 
land, and has had charge 
of celebrated divorce and 
alimony suits before the 
Canadian Senate. He has 
been Professor of Law and Examiner 
in St. Michael s College four years, 
and has taken all but the final exam 
ination for LL.B. in Toronto Univer 
sity. He has travelled extensively on 
the continent of Europe and through 
the United States, and from the Atlan 
tic to the Pacific, and possesses one of 
the finest private libraries in Caua- . 
He enjoys a large and lucrative prac 
tice, having clients not only here, but 
in England and Germany. In politics, 
Mr. McPhillips is a prominent Con 
servative, and has conducted many 
contested election In religion 

he is a Roman Catholic. 


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V. WM. MILER MAGRATH, rector &lt; 
Christ Church R. E., Barrie, Out., 
, was born at the Lakes of Killarney, 
County of Kerry, Ireland, in the year 1832, 
and is the only surviving son of the late James 
Lawson Magrath, Esq., of the Irish Poor 
Law Commission, and grandson of Lt.-Col.- 
James Magrath, of the Syth Royal Irish Regi 
ment of Foot, who served for the long period 
of fifty-three years in the British army. Mr. 
Magrath was educated in Dublin for mercan 
tile life, and came to Canada with his family 
in 1874, and for the period of sixteen years he 
was one of the most prominent and popular 
commercial travellers in the Dominion. Re 
signing mercantile life in iSSy, he was or 
dained to the ministry of the Reformed Epi.s 
eopal Church by the Right Rev. Samuel 
Fallowes, D.I)., presiding bishop, and was 
then appointed rector of Christ Church, Barrie, 
which position he still occupies. Mr. Magrath 
was married in 1X57 to Emily, daughter of 
\Vm. Atkinson Sadlier. Esq., Sea Park, Mala 
hide, Counts- Dublin, and neiee of Very Rev. 
Frank Sadlier, D.D., Provost, T.C.I). 


I XCAX McNABB 1IAUJDAY, 
Cheslcy, Out., was born May 2nd, 
1837, in the County of Renfrew, 
Out. His parents were John Halliday and 
Catherine McNabb, of Perthshire, Scotland. 
The subject of our sketch received such an 
education as the schools of his day afforded. 
He first engaged in the lumber business in 
Renfrew County. In 1X57 he removed to 
Cheslcy and engaged in the general store busi 
ness, being the pioneer storekeeper of the 
town. Mr. Ilalliday is a public-spirited citi 
zen, and has held many trust worths offices in 
the town and county. He has been treasurer 
of the town since its incorporation, and post 
master and Justice of the Peace since 1x7^. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and has been an elder for ten years. He has 
also been secretary and treasurer of the School 
Hoard for twenty-four years. Mr. Ilalliday 
was married in April, 18(17, to Miss Graham, 
daughter of William Graham, of Carlisle, 
England. lie his one of the hamNomeM. 
residences in Chesley, where he lives happih 
with his family. 


\II:N OF CANADA. 


^ 
V\ I-:. MII.LWARD, M.D., Grimsby, 

V V Out., was bom in April, 1838, in 
the township of Grimsby. He was educated 
at the public schools of Grimsby and Nelson 
townships, and afterwards attended the Salt- 
fleet school. He then taught school for a 
time, and after taking a second-class certifi 
cate, attended for a time the Milton Grammar 
School. In 1860 he entered the medical oS- 
partment of Victoria College, where he gra 
duated in 1864. On leaving college he re 
lieved two physicians, who were temporarily 
absent from practice, and then began practice 
for himself at Grimsby, which he has ever 
since carried on successfully. In religion 
Mr. Millward is an Episcopalian. In 
lies a Lil&gt;eral-Conservativc. He belongs 
to the Masonic body, is a mem!&gt;er of the 
il Arch Knight Templars, Scottish Rite 
up to the thirty-second degree, of the A.O. 
r.\V., C.m.ulian Order of Foresters, and 
various other societies. He was married on 
the nth of February, 1873, to Charlotte R., 
daughter of H. Salisbury, New York State, 

D.S 


X TYRON WARREI 1 BURR, furniture 
\ I manufacturer, Guelph, Out., was 
V" born September 23rd, 1840, at 
Dover, Yt., U.S.A. He is the son of I.yman 
and Elizabeth Rice Burr, descendants of the 
earliest settlers in Massachussets. He received 
his education at the public schools, and in 
1862 came to Canada and settled in Guelph. 
For a period of ten years he had the contract 
for ornamenting and gilding the well-known 
Raymond sewing machines. In 1872 he re 
linquished this branch of business and com 
menced the manufacture of furniture in com 
pany with his brother, F. C. Burr, and F. B. 
Skinner, the latter retiring in 1882, a btivi 
that from small beginnings has giown to be 
one of the largest of its kind in Canada, it 
being well known from one end of the Domi 
nion to the other. Mr. Burr is a prominent 
and active member of the Methodi.st C lnmli 
in Canada, and also holds tin 
and steward. He was married in i&gt;;o to 
IK-leii, daughter of William Mitchell, of 
!ph, Out. They have a family of two 
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JOHN CHAMBERS, Superinten 
dent of Public Parks, Toronto, 
was born nth November, 1850, 
at Canterbury, Eng. He was educated 
in the National and Grammar schools 
of Favcrsham, and, after leaving 
school, became apprentice to a florist, 
and studied landscape gardening and 
the nursery business. In 1871 he 
came to Canada and became foreman 
with the late James Fleming, one of 
the first florists in Ontario. After 
being seven years in his employment, 
IK- was appointed in 1878 by the 
Council to lay out the new Exposition 
Grounds, and afterwards received the 


appointment of Superintendent of 
Parks. Many of the beautiful parks 
and gardens of Toronto have beeu laid 
out under his direction. Mr. Chambers 
is a member of St. Mark s Anglican 
Church, and in politics a pronounced 
Conservative. He is a member of the 
Masonic Brotherhood, Past Master of 
Alpha Lodge, a member of Ancient 
Royal Arch Chapter, and Cyrene Pre- 
ceptory, of the Sons of England and 
other societies. He is also president of 
the Toronto Gardeners and Florists 
Society. He was married in 1872 to 
EH/abeth, daughter of John Robinson, 
Lambeth, London, Fug. 


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J 


01 IX FRED. CHITTENDEN, 
dentist, 1 1 King street East, 
Hamilton, Ont., was born in 
Hamilton on the 8th of September, 
7. He received his education at 
the public schools of that city, and 
afterwards at the celebrated Collegiate 
Institute there, where he was thorough 
ly prepared for higher studies. After 
his collegiate course at Hamilton was 
finished, he matriculated at Trinity 
I nivcrsity Faculty of Medicine. T" 
roiito. After this he graduated at the 
Royal College of I )ental Surgeons. 
Tir&gt;iit&lt;,. in 1X90, having studied den- 
ti-try under his father, the late I)r. C. 


S. Chittenden, of Hamilton, and on his 
death took up his practice in Hamilton, 
where he still continues, taking a high 
place in his profession. In politics Dr. 
Chittenden belongs to the Liberal- 
Conservative party of the Dominion of 
Canada, and by religion he belongs t&lt;&gt; 
the Episcopalian Church. As the doctor 
is still a comparatively young man in 
his profession, he will doubtless in 
coming years take a hijji standing 
among the dental stir intario. 

lie i- like all native Canadians, i: 

party, patriotic in regard to 
his country and enthusiastic in his 
calling. 


CANADA. 


179 


JOHN ELLIOTT, contractor and 
builder, Toronto, formerly of 
Brantford, was born at Heck, in 
the parish of Snaith, Yorkshire, Eng 
land, August i5th, 1822, and is a son of 
the late Thomas Elliott, a native of 
Pontefract, Yorkshire. He left Eng 
land 25th May, 1843, for Canada, pass 
ing on from Quebec to Montreal, 
Kingston, and Toronto. He then 
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and other 
parts of the United States, where he re 
mained about a year. In September, 
1844, ne returned to Toronto, and there 
worked at his trade as contractor and 
builder till June, 1846. In that year he 
entered the firm of Wilson, 
Elliott & Metcalf, stone 
cutters and builders, which 
partnership was dissolved in 
two years. He then went 
into business on his own 
account in Toronto until 

July I4th, 1850, when he 
came to Brantford with his 
brother William, under the 

name of J. and W. Elliott. 

His brother William subse 
quently went to London. 

After the decease of his 

brother, John took up his 

business and built several 

public buildings. During 

his life in Brantford he 

erected the Central Prison, 

Toronto, the Post Office in 

that city, the Parliament 

buildings at Quebec, the 

Court House and jail in 

Bruce, and an addition to 

the county buildings in 

Brantford. He also erected 

the Hughes Bros, building, 

Toronto, did the- mason work 

for the county buildings in 

Norfolk, and for the Hon. 

\Ym. McMasU r s store on 

Yongestreet,Toronto built 


an addition to the Normal School, the 
Mammoth block on King street, and 
did the mason work on the Lieut-Gov 
ernor s house and other public build 
ings in Toronto and elsewhere. He is 
at present building the City Hall and 
Court House of Toronto, one of the 
finest buildings on the continent of its 
class. Sylvester Neelon is his partner, 
the firm name being Elliott and Neelon. 
Mr. Elliott is a Mason, also a devoted 
member of the Methodist church. He 
has occupied all the prominent civic 
offices in Brantford. On his moving to 
Toronto he received a public banquet, 
an address and gold chronometer. 


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CANADA. 


WADK. retired mcr- 
chant, Brantford, Out., was 
born on the loth December, 
iSn&gt;, at Moneyniore, County Derry, 
Ireland. He was educated in the public 
and National schools of Ste\vartsto\vn, 
to which his parents had removed in 
1813. He studied for a time with a 
view to the medical profession. This, 
however, he abandoned because of the 
prejudice existing against a profession 
which was at that time associated with 
the names of Burke and Hare, the 
notorious murderers. He then learned 
the carpenter trade and came to Canada 
in 1833. After living at Brockville, 


Prc-scot t and Hamilton, he came to 
Hrantfonl in i.S^, and lias remained 
there ever since, except th-i-e \i 
spent at Niagara. &lt; &gt;n coming to 
I rantford he worked at his trade, but 
shortly afterwards entered on mercan 
tile business, in which lie was suco 
ful, and retired in 1860. Mr. Wade is 
one of the very few remaining land 
marks of Brantford city, having lived 
there continuously for half a century, 
and did much to add to her prosperity 
during her pioneer days. He has 
crossed the Atlantic several times to 
visit his native land. He is a promi 
nent member of the "Wellington Street 
Methodist Church, and has 
for nearly forty years con 
tinuously occupied all the 
important positions in the 
gift of the church. He is a 
strong Prohibitionist, was 
the first worthy patriarch 
of the Sons of Temperance 
in Brautford, and has held 
other important positions in 
temperance organizations. 
In the days when he first 
led the temperance move 
ment, the drinking of alco 
holic liquor as a beverage, 
and the selling of it, was 
considered respectable, and 
to seek to curtail the traffic 
needed no small amount ot 
moral courage. He has out 
lived those dark days, and 
has now the consciousness 
of having done much to 
elevate the moral sentiment 
of his beloved city. II 
was married in Toronto 
April :2, to Miss J. 

M. Cudmore. of Thornhill, 
Out. He has had eleven 
children, of whom but 
three sons and one daughter 
are now livii; 


CANADA. 


181 


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JAMKS R. SOrCH. 


JAMES 1C. SOUCH, manager of the On 
tario Bank, Newmarket, Ont., was born 
on the I3th of June, 1858, at Bowman- 
ville. He is descended from English parentage, 
his father having been born in Devonshire and 
his mother in Cornwall. After completing his 
education at the Bowmanville High School, he 
entered the Ontario Bank at Port Perry in 1877, 
rising to the position of teller. In 1881 he was 
promoted to the tellership at Guelph, and in 
1883 became accountant in the same office. In 
iSS4 he was appointed manager of the branch at 
Mount Forest, and finally in 1885 was appointed 
manager of the branch at Newmarket, which 
position he still occupies. Mr. Souch is a pro 
minent member of the Methodist Church, and 
also of the Board of Management. He is also 
Court Deputy II. C. Ranger of the I.O.F., a 
director of the Mechanics Institute, and occupies 
many other important positions in the community 
in which he resides, which is quite complimen 
tary to his years. In politics he belongs to 
the Reform party. He was married in Scptcm- 
ber, issi, to Victoria I)., daughter of Thomas 
Shaw, of Port Perry, Out. 


TGH BLAIN is a native of Ontario and 
was born on the 23rd of June, 1844, in 
York County. His parents were 
John Blain and Elizabeth McCutcheon. He re 
ceived his education in the public schools and in 
the Normal School, Toronto. In 1866 he began 
business as office manager for Nerlich & Co., 
and remained as such for nine years, when he 
was taken into partnership. In 1880 he entered 
into partnership with Joseph F. Eby uuder the 
name of Eby, Blaiu & Co. This is now one of 
the leading firms in Toronto. Mr. Blain was 
married on the 2gth of June, 1887, to Miss 
Huldah Lee Jones, of Maryland, U.S. He at 
tends the Presbyterian Church, and is vice- 
president of the Toronto Board of Trade. While 
active in business, he gives considerable atten 
tion to outside matters. He has been captain 
and paymaster of the Queen s Own Rifles, pre 
sident of the Commercial Traveller s Association 
of Canada, and president of the National Club, 
Toronto, an institution to which we are largely 
indebted for our Canadian national senti 
ment. Mr. Blain is one of the active and 
prominent business men of Canada. 


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Ml.N -.I CANADA 


J&lt;&gt;HN WKSI.KY 1&gt;S\VF.I.I., I . A 
n.- late Andrew Roswell, of Wind- 
li;ini to\viishij&gt;. Norfolk County. Out.. 
orii on the igth of IKcfinU-r. 1X55, at his 
father s home in Windhain. He in early life 
developed scholastic tendencies, and olit.iiui.-d a 
teacher s certificate while attending public school. 
He was engaged as teacher in Cathcart and 
Burford over two years, and then attended the 
Brantford and Hamilton Collegiate Institutes, in 
preparation for a university course. He matri 
culated with honors at the University of Toronto 
in 1880, and gained the first general proficiency 
scholarship in 1881, and graduated B.A. in 
1884. After travelling two years he entered 
Osgoode Hall as a student-at-law, and was sworn 
in as solicitor, and called to the Bar in Septem 
ber, 1889. He was married on the 3oth of 
September, 1889, to Miss Alice Moore, daughter 
of Peregrine Moore, Esq., of Alliston, and short 
ly after opened an office in Toronto, where he 
now enjoys a growing practice. He is a Re 
former in politics, and is a prominent 
member of the Young Men s Liberal 
Club. 


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RKV. &lt;;. JOHNSTON. 


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r. GABRIEL JOHNSTON, B.D., of 
Welland, Out., was lx&gt;rn at Edenton, 
i North Carolina, in 1843. He was 
educated at the University of North Carolina, 
where he graduated in 1861. Mr. Johnston 
served under General Stonewall Jackson in the 
war between the North and South, ami out of 
one hundred and fifty who volunteered with him 
only eighteen survived. He was through seven 
teen of the severest battles of Virginia. After 
the war he studied law, which he followed for 
two years. He then devoted himself to the 
ministry, and was ordained in 1870 at Oswego, 
N.Y. In 1877 he came to Canada, and was 
stationed first in Jarvis, where he remained until 
1885, when he removed to Welland and took 
charge of Holy Trinity Church. Mr. Johnston 
is a man of more than ordinary abilitv . Henry 
Proctor. Principal of the Trainiii. 
North Bristol, England, referring to an addi 
made by him there, says: " It w.i-- 1. ,ns 

of an ordinary t\j&gt;e. It showed intellectual 

enuine 

He was married in : 
Kate Killalv. of Ottawa. Out. 


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V. DANIEL CASWELL 
McINTYRE, M.A., Ph.D., 
Beamsville, Out., was born 
the 3 ist of May, 1845, at Duart, 
Kent Count}-, Out. He received his 
education at the public school, Chatham 
High School and Victoria University, 
where he graduated B.A. in 1872, and 
M.A. in 1873. He also took honors in 
(icnnan and Hebrew. He taught from 
1862 to 1867, and in 1872 became 
mathematical master of Tngersoll High 
School, which position he resigned to 
study for the ministry. He studied 
theology at Princeton, N.J., Union 
Seminary, Xew York, and the Free 


Church College, Edinburgh. He then 
travelled in Europe, visiting London, 
Paris, Florence and Rome. Returning 
to Canada he, in 1878, accepted a unani 
mous call to Beamsville and Clinton 
churches, where he has remained 
ever since, doing effective work. The 
membership of the churches has 
doubled, and a beautiful manse built 
in addition. Dr. Mclntyre took a post 
graduate course at the \Veslevan Uni 
versity, Bloomington, Illinois, where lie 
received the degree of Ph.D. in 18X7. 
He was married on the 25th December, 
1878, to Eli/a Maud, daughter of the 
late Robert Walker, of Whitby, &lt; &gt;nt. 


MEN OP 


THOMAS JOHN HAMMILL, miii 

-*- owner, Barrie, Out., was born on 
the i6th December, 1849, in Wentworth 
County. He is a son of Robert 
Hammill, of the same place. He re 
ceived his education at the public 
school, or, as it was called, " Bennett s" 
school house, Governor s Road, Went 
worth County. At an early age he 
entered the employment of N. & O. J. 
I helps. lumber merchants, St. Catha 
rines, where he remained for 19 years. 
He removed to Barrie in i.SS.&gt;, and began 
business there as partner of the firm of 
N. ,\: O. J. IMu-lps & Co. In addition 
to their mills at I help.ston and Barrie, 


he is also interested in British Columbia 
timber lands. Mr. Hammill is a mem 
ber of the Methodist Church, and also 
steward and trustee of the Collier 
.Street Church, Barrie. He is also a 
member of the Masonic Brotherhood, 
the Independent Order of Oddfellows, 
and various other fraternal or^aui/a- 
tioiis. He is also a member of the 
Toronto Hoard of Trade. In poli; 
lie is a Liberal, and in i.SS_&gt; was elected 
alderman for St. Catharines. He has 
been twice married in iSjn to Miss 
Klliott, who died in i.S;- 1 , and in i.S;.; 
au.yhter of Noah I helps. of 
St. Cathnri: 


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185 


IKY. JOHN M. WILKINSON, 
B.A., Toronto, was bom in 
&lt; Markham, on December 5th, 
1852. He received his primary educa 
tion at the public schools in Toronto. 
For a long period he was under the 
deepest religious conviction and felt 
called upon to enter the ministry, 
although having a dread of its respon 
sibility and his unfitness for the sacred 
calling. Finally, while attending a 
cottage prayer meeting, the burden on 
his heart rolled away and he returned 
to his father in Toronto, telling him of 
the great change that had taken place. 
He began work under the Rev. James 
Hannon, in Toronto, and 
afterwards attended the Col 
legiate Institute at Cobourg. 
Eighteen months afterwards 
he matriculated in Victoria 
University and entered the 
class of 1872. Next year, 
on account of family afflic 
tion, he was called home, 
and in 1874 was received as a 
probationer for the ministry 
by the Methodist Conference 
in Hamilton, and was as 
signed to the Port Hope 
District. He also travelled 
in the Sunderland and Port 
Perry Circuits. He then 
returned to Victoria, where 
he graduated as valedic 
torian of the class of 1880. 
The same year he was or 
dained at Belleville and was 
sent to Bradford. After this 
he filled appointments at 
Toronto, Barrie, and finally 
at Agnes Street Church, 
Toronto. This church was 
at the time of the union 
heavily mortgaged, but 
under Mr. Wilkinson s pas 
torate the debt was reduced 
from sixteen thousand to 


six thousand dollars, and a thousand 
souls converted in three years. After 
completing his three years term in this 
church, he went to Britain to study 
Evangelistic methods, and returning in 
1889, opened his favorite Mission 
known as the "People s Tabernacle," 
which is crowded to its full seating 
capacity of two thousand. The Mission 
so far is entirely undenominational, 
and is supported by the collection and 
the free will offerings of the people. 
Mr. Wilkinson was married in Decem 
ber, 1 88 1, to Emma, eldest daughter 
of R. Philip, merchant manufacturer, 
of Toronto. 


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\n;x OK UANAOA. 


C GEORGE H. \RYKY Dorc.I. AS. 
* * barrister, 5 Toronto street, To 
ronto, ( )nt., was born on Christmas 
Day, i So;,, at Chatham, Out. Ik- wa&gt; 
educated at private schools and Toronto 
Collegiate Institute. A son of William 
I "tiglas, Q-C., of Chatham, grandson 
of George Douglas, late of Tluirso in 
Caithnesshire, Scotland, a descendant 
of the Perthshire branch of the Douglas 
family, and a Presbyterian Jacobite. 
His maternal grandfather was Captain 
Richard Harvey Hudson, one of Sir 
James Mathisson s commanders during 
the Chinese war, arising out of the 
English opium trade, and a lineal de- 


ndant of Sir Ileudrick Hudson. At 
an early ai^e IK- developed a taste for 
classics and modern lan^ua^es, and 
under the tuition of a gentleman who 
had studied Latin under several famins 
Jesuit fathers, he became well acquaint 
ed with the Latin poets and pi 
writers. He was first articled to Hector 
Cameron, Q.C., of Toronto, until the 
North-West Rebellion in 1885, when 
he served first with the Queen s Own 
Rifles, was afterwards transferred to 
Boulton s Scouts, was then attached as 
a supernumerary to the Yorktou Force 
under Major Watson, where he served 
in outpost and despatch duties. After 
the rebellion he was a 
student with Douglas, 
Douglas & Walker, of 
Chatham, Out., with Beaty, 
Chadwick, Blackstock & 
Gait, also Beaty, Hamilton 
& Cassell, Toronto, became 
a solicitor in January, 1889, 
and a barrister in January, 
1890, and has practiced since 
in Toronto. He has been 
a life-long Conservative, is 
now a member of the Young 
Men s Liberal-Conservative 
Clnb, Toronto, and has 
fought for his party on the 
platform in three contests in 
Western Ontario. He was 
gazetted a lieutenant in the 
24th Kent Infantry in 
October, 1885, and qualified 
at the Infantry Sell 
Toronto, in 1886, resigning 
his commission in i&gt; 
after having served four 
years as a private, and four 
years under commission. 
He is an .te of Im 

perial ] ( -deration siuee r 
and one of the first to 

ii/e the Toronto branch 
of the League. 


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187 


EPHRAM HORACE MUSSEN, 
M.A., Aurora, Out., was born on the 
.^ 24th of April, 1842, at Allanburgh, 
\Velland County. His father was the late 
Sheriff Musseu, of the County of Leeds and 
Grenville. He received his education at Belvi- 
dere Academy and Thorold Grammar School, 
and entered Trinity College in 1862, taking the 
fourth scholarship, graduating in 1867. For five 
years he was a member of the Queen s Own, and 
took part in the Battle of Ridgeway. He then 
began the study of theology, and in 1869 was 
ordained deacon in the Church of England and 
priest in 1870. He received the degree of M.A. 
in 1872. After ordination he became missionary 
in the township of Manvers, and afterwards at 
Caledonia, York and Cayuga. From thence he 
went to Niagara Falls, then to Lakefield, and in 
1880 to Scarborough, where he remained two 
years. He was then appointed to Aurora, where 
he has been for nine years. He is a member of the 
Masonic Brotherhood, and also of the A.O.U.W. 
Society. He married, in 1873, May 
Victoria, daughter of L. Schofield, of 
Her Majesty s Customs, Prescott, Ont. 


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TV LEXAXDKR H. 
^-\ Orillia, Ont., v 
VS is; v s, in the t 


BEATOX, M.I)., of 
was born April 2oth, 
township of Pickering, 
Ontario County. He received his education at 
the public school of his native place, and at t he- 
age of eighteen obtained a second-class certificate. 
After this he taught in the township of Yaughan 
and at Duffin s Creek. In 1858 he entered the 
office of Ross, Crawford & Crombie, Toronto, 
for the purpose of studying law, but owing \. 
circumstances, he had to abandon this and re 
turned to teaching, which lie followed until 1862, 
when he entered the Toronto School of Medicine. 
He attended the Rolph Medical School during 
the summer sessions, and graduated from that 
institution in 1X64. After graduating he began 
the practice of his profession, which he continued 
until lie received his present appointment as 
Medical Superintendent of the Asylum for 
Idiots, Orillia, Out., which he fills with much 
acceptance. In religion Dr. Beaton ; 
1 rc^bytcriaii, and has been for many years an 
office-bearer in his church. In politics he is a 
Liberal. He was married in iS;o to Margaret 
Ann McXivcn, of Bradford, Ont. 


MI--..N 


CANADA. 


W. BOG AM. 

-r-r y^ 

\ A / KLLINGTON BOGART, photographer, 
\ V Newmarket, Out., was born there on 
the 2gth of November, 1855. His parents were 
Philip and Adeline Gleason Bogart, German and 
American parentage. He was educated at the 
public schools in Newmarket, and afterwards in 
the Commercial College, Toronto. In 1875 he 
began the study of photography in Newmarket, 
and in 1876, opened a studio in the town of 
Aurora. He then went for a time to Munroe, 
Michigan, U.S., and subsequently returning to 
Canada, entered the establishment of Edy 
Brothers, photographers, London, Out. In 1883 
^ he "opened a studio at Newmarket, where he has 
eded in securing a large patronage. He 
: i .very fine collection of Canadian and Ameri 
can scenery, including views of Cuba, Florida 
and Bahama Islands, where he has travelled ex 
tensively. He also has a fine collection of 
natural history and marine curios. Mr. I: 

Methodist, and also a member of the Inde 
pendent Order &lt;&gt;f Odd Fellows, he also 1 
to the American and Canadian Photographic 
iations and takes a deep interest in every 
thing connected with his profession. 


TTART SOViT. M I&gt; . C.M., New- 
market. Out., was born on the J&lt;&gt;th of 
I YInua: .it Colhonie, ( )nt. He is de 

scended from Scotch parents, his father K-inu; I M . 

h S. Scott, of Ganaiioijue. He \vas edu 
at CianaiKxrue High School, and in issi en 
Trinity Medical College, Toronto, where lie 
graduated in 1885 with honors in all Mil 
receiving two scholarships. During his gradu 
ating year he was assistant demonstrator in 
Anatomy in Trinity College. After completing 
his medical studies he began practice at Lloyd - 
town, where he remained four years, and then 
removed in 1889 to Newmarket, where he enjoys 
a large and lucrative practice. In 1890, he also 
opened an extensive drug business in connection 
with his profession. Dr. Scott is a member of 
the Methodist Church, and of various fraternal 
organizations. In politics he is a Reformer. 
He was married February 24th, 1886, to Lizzie, 
daughter of Jonathan Dunn, of Brighton, Out. 
Dr. Scott is in the best sense of the word a 

self-made man and has risen to his present 

position by indefatigable perseverance 

and industry. 


con, M D. 


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189 


"YX/ILLIAM HENRY PEARSON, 
r r general manager and secretary 
of Consumers Gas Co., Toronto, was 
born on the gih of November, 1831, at 
Brisbon, London, Eng. He was edu 
cated at John Boyd s Academy, Toronto, 
in W. H. Coonibe s, and the District 
Grammar School, Kingston, and other 
private schools. He received a thorough 
English education, and also a course in 
Latin. (The late Chief Justice Harri 
son and Erastus Wiman were his school 
mates at Harte s Academy.) In early 
life he had a strong predilection for 
music and art, but the death of his 
parents prevented the gratification of 
his desires. In 1849, under 
the appeals of John B. 
Gough, he became a total 
abstainer. He entered the 
Toronto Post Office in 1847, 
when fifteen years of age, 
the entire staff at that time 
consisting of postmaster, 
three clerks and a letter 
carrier. His salary for three 
years was only $160, and 
the labor, including Sunday, 
severe. He was appointed 
chief clerk of the Con 
sumers Gas Co. in 1854, 
secretary in 1874, and gen 
eral manager in 1887. 
When converted in 1852 he 
refused to work on the 
Lord s Day. Mr. Pearson 
was until twenty years of 
age a member of the Church 
of England, but under the 
preaching of Rev. James 
Caughey, he joined the 
Richmond Street Methodist 
Church, where he remained 
a member for 36 years, till 
it was closed in iSSS. He 
taught in the Sunday School 
six years, and was superin 
tendent over thirty. Dur 


ing this period the school was signally 
blessed by numerous conversions, many 
of whom entered the ministry. For 
some years the school was the largest 
in Canada. Numerous testimonials 
presented to him showed how his labors 
were valued. Mr. Pearson has been a 
class leader for 36 years, trustee and 
delegate to Conference, and for 35 years 
has given a loth of his income to the 
Lord. He has held the offices of direc 
tor of the Consumers Gas Co., Lind 
say ; vice-president American Gas Light 
Association, and treasurer and director 
Toronto Philharmonic Society. He mar 
ried Miss M. A. Cline March 5th, 1856. 


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MEN 


CANADA. 


Vfc/ILBUR C. MATTHHWS. of 
* * &gt;nto, was born in the 

township of \"anghan. Out., in July, 
- &gt;. He remained at home on the 
farm until twenty, obliged to be content 
with such educational advantages as 
the district school then afforded. After 
this he attended the Commercial Col 
lege, Toronto, for a term, and on the 
completion of his studies, obtained a 
position in the Registrar s Department, 
Ottawa, where he remained two years, 
when he left and took a position as 
ing clerk in the Toronto office of 
Dun, Wiman & Co. After a short ap 
prenticeship there, he was sent by the 


firm to their branch at Albany, X.Y., 
and alter t\v&lt;&gt; years steady, hard work, 
as clerk and traveller there, the firm 

: ed him the position of mana 
of the Memphis, Tenn., office, which 
offer he accepted, and after live years 
labor, he left it in a flourishing condi 
tion. Mr. Matthews was married at 
Memphis in October, 1.^73. and the fol 
lowing year was appointed manager of 
the Toronto office, with Hamilton a 
branch. Since taking charge in To 
ronto, the entire business has been 
more than trebled, and branch offices 
have been opened in London, Winni 
peg, Victoria and Vancouver. On 
leaving Memphis he was 
presented with an address 
signed by the entire whole 
sale trade, bankers, and city 
officials, accompanied by a 
handsome gold watch. Mr. 
Matthews takes an active 
part in all athletic sports. 
He was mainly instrumental 
in getting up the Toronto 
Athletic Grounds Company, 
of which he was president 
for several years. He is 
a member of the Granite 
Curling Rink, a director 
of the Great North-Western 
Telegraph Company, and 
Poison Iron Works Com 
pany, and chairman of the 
Gymnasium Committee of 
the Young Men s Christian 
Association. He is consi 
dered an active and pnsl; 
member of society, and is 
highly esteemed by his fel 
low-citizens for his genial 
manners and obliging w;. 
The career of Mr. .Matthews 
is evidence of what determi 
nation and perseverance can 
do in the absence of many 
advantages in early life. 


OF* CANADA. 


191 


JAMKS NELSON PKER, grain mer 
chant, Toronto, was born on the 
22iid of July, 1845, in the town 
ship of Nelson, Halton Count} , Ontario. 
After passing through the public schools he 
graduated at the Commercial College, Toronto. 
He then engaged as accountant with David 
Plewes, of Brantford. At the end of four 
years he formed a partnership with \Vm. 
Plewes, of London, and for eight years carried 
on busi ness under the name of Plewes & Peer. 
He then returned to Brantford and spent 
years more with his former employer. 
In iS*4 he entered the establishment of \V. 
P. Him land & Co., Toronto, and in ISM, 
became partner in the firm of Pennee iS: 
Peer, (Quebec and Toronto. His present 
business as Peer i\: Co. was begun in iSSq. 
Mr. Peer is an active member of the Methodist 
Church, and connected with its various boards. 
He is a member of the I. &lt;&gt;.F. and of the 
Hoard of Trade. He was married in I Sou to 
Theresa Josephine Kenny, who died in March, 
1*7", and again, in IN;J, to Rel&gt;ecva, daughter 
of James Zimmerman, of Burlington. Out. 


JAMKS BUCHANAN, planing mills, 
Goderich, Out., was born at Karmun- 
nock, Scotland, July 5th, 1836. He 
was educated at the parish schools, and came 
to the United States at the age of eighteen. 
Having been apprenticed in Scotland to the 
cabinet-making trade, he worked as carpenter 
for a time in Ohio and other places, 
until the year 1857, when he settled in 
Goderich. He commenced as an employee 
of John McDonald in the mill he now owns. 
Mr. McDonald having given up the business. 
Mr. Buchanan and two fellow-workmen bought 
the mills. Some years afterward Mr. Buchanan 
became sole proprietor, and has been very 
successful in business. He is a liberal giver 
to religious objects, and occupies important 
positions in the Presbyterian Church, such as 
elder, manager, Sabbath School teacher, etc. 
He is a friend of the Salvation Army, having 
paid the expenses of three of their missionaries 
to India, and supports one of them in the field. 
He is Master \Yorkman of the A.O.U.W. 
He was married on the 2Sth of February. 1859. 
to Miss Jannet McKay, of Scotland. 


192 


MI:X OR CANADA. 


. R. N. GRANT, Orillia, Out., was. 


Ixirn near Peterl&gt;orough, Out. He 
ceived his early education chiefly 
at the Grammar School, Stratford, County of 
Perth. After leaving the Grammar School 
he taught for several years, and also prose 
cuted his studies with a view to the Bar. 
Having changed his mind, he decided to study 
for the ministry and entered Knox College fh 
1859, and graduated in 1865. Soon after he 
was licensed by the Presbytery of Paris, and 
received calls from Markham, Picton, Water- 
down and Wellington Square. He accepted 
the latter and was ordained and inducted 
January 23rd, 1866. After remaining there 
five years, he accepted a call to Knox Church, 
Ingersoll, where he remained eleven years. 
In i ss J he received the call to his present large 
and influential charge. In 1891 he was unani 
mously elected Moderator of the Synod of 
Toronto and Kingston. Mr. Granl is a most 
live platform sjicakcr, an able preacher and 
diligent pastor. I: &lt;me of the mosl gifted 

magazine writers of tin- day. He married, May 
9, lS6r,, Marianne McMullen. i &lt; int. 


:V. THOMAS LOGAN TURNBl LL, 


Presbyterian Church, Oneida, Out., 
was born in 1850, at Berwick - 
on-Tweed, Kngland. He received his preli 
minary education at the schools of his native 
town. He emigrated to Canada in 1889, and 
after spending six months in Toronto, was 
called to the First Presbyterian Church, Port 
Colborne. He was unanimously called to 
Oneida June 26th, 1891, after repeated solici 
tations from that congregation to K-conie their 
pastor. Mr. Turnbull studied at the 1 ni- 
sity of Edinburgh, and afterwards .it the 
English Presbyterian College in London. II. 
was associated, fora time, with the late J rof. 
Elmslie at Willisden, and afterwards settled 
four years at Whitby, Yorkshire, England, 
from which charge he came to Canada. ll&lt; 
married in i iiise Jane Hcaumoiil, 

of South Elnisall. Yorkshi- ,nd. by 

whom he has two daughters. In pol 
he lielongs to the Reform party. Mr. T 
bull will doubt! fading jxisjtion 

in the ministry of his church in th 
Dominion, 


ON. ARTHUR S. HARDY, 
Q-C., was born at Mohawk, 
Ontario, Brant County, on 
December i4th, 1837. He is descended 
from U.E. Loyalists on both sides, and 
is a son of the late Russell Hardy, 
formerly of Brantford, and latterly of 
London, Out. Mr. Hardy was edu 
cated at the County of Brant Grammar 
School, at the Private Academy kept 
for some years by the Rev. W. W. 
Nelles, Mohawk, and at Rockwood 
Academy. He was called to the Bar of 
Ontario in 1865, was appointed a Q.C. 
in 1876, and is a Bencher of the Law 
Society of Ontario. From the very 


I 


outset it was safe to predict a brilliant 
and vigorous professional career for 
Mr. Hard} 7 , for he had conspicuous 
natural brilliancy. He was daring, 
and had fire and unusual mental alert 
ness. He soon became head of the 
Bar in his county. He was first re 
turned to the Legislative Assembly for 
his present seat in 1873 on the resigna 
tion of the sitting member, was re- 
elected by acclamation at the general 
election in 1875, appointed Provincial 
Secretary and Registrar in March, 
1877, at which time he was re-elected 
by acclamation, and also re-elected at 
the general elections of 1879, 1883, 
1887, and 1890. Upon the 

resignation of the Hon. T. 

B. Pardee,hewasin January, 
1889, appointed Commis 
sioner of Crown Lands. 
He is one of the strongest 
members in the Mowat ad 
ministration, and has no 
superior in the House as a 
ready and effective speaker. 
Mr. Hardy was married on 
January loth, 1870, to Mary, 
daughter of the late Mr. 
Justice Morrison, of Toronto. 
He is not only thoroughly 
Canadian from both sides, 
but is specially a County of 
Brant man, his mother s 
family having settled in 
Brant County about the 
year 1800, and his father s 
family having come to the 
county a few year s after. 
Mr. Hardy s children are 
the sixth generation of the 
family who have died, or 
were born, and are living in 

f the county. South Brant is 
proud of her representative 
in the Local House, and from 
appearance s will likely con 
tinue the honor. 


194 


MBN OF CANADA 


^ I.KXAXDKR BURNS, M.A.. 
2~~V !&gt;.!&gt;., I.L.D.. pre.-ideiit of the 
^" I.adi liege, I I;uiiilton, 

&lt; )nt., was burn at Castlewcllan, County 
I&gt;u\vn, Ireland, in i&lt;\v). lie was edu 
cated at the National Sell. 
Ireland, and afterwards entered Victoria 
University, Cobourg, in 1^55, and 
graduated as Prince of Wales gold 
medalist in 1861. He served as tutor 
in the University four j-ears, and then 
preached three years at Stratford and 
Drayton, ( )nt., after which he was called 
to the presidency of Iowa Wesleyan 
University, then to that of Simpson 
College, Iowa, and finally was recalled 
to Hamilton, Canada, in 
1879, where he has re 
mained since as president 
of the Ladies College. In 
his youth Dr. Burns learned 
a trade and earned enough 
money to enter the Univer 
sity. Hence his practical 
sympathy with working- 
men. He was raised in the 
Presbyterian Church, and 
still boasts of his early reli 
gious training in that fold. 
Under the preaching of 
the Rev. James Caughey, 
he entered the Methodist 
Church, with which he has 
been since identified. He 
has, however, a warm re 
gard for the teachings of 
his childhood, and is op 
posed to emphasizing any 
thing but the essentials of 
religion, and has been for 
years a strong advocate for 
closer union among the 
ngelical churches in 
Canada. In 1882 Dr. Burns 
was tried for heresy, because 
of his liberal views and 
freedom of utterance, but 
was acquitted on all points. 


Hr is a specialist in Biblical literature 
and criticism, on which and kindred 
subjects he is a frequent lecturer. He 
is a member of the P.oanl uf Regents 
of Victoria, but was strongly opposed 
to federation. Although not directly 
in pastoral work, he preaches nearly 
every Sabbath, and is in constant de 
mand for special services. As president 
ot the Hamilton College, the oldest in 
the country, he has done grand work for 
his denomination. Dr. Burns belongs 
to the Masonic body, and is a decided 
Reformer in politics. He was married 
in June, 1863, to Sarah Andrews, of 
Devonshire, England. 


MKN OF- CAJMA.DA. 


195 


V. DANIEL ECKER, Tapley- 
town, Out., was born in Bin- 
^S) brook township, Wentworth 
County, May i8th, 1846. He received 
his education at the public schools of 
his own county. At the age of nine 
teen years he obtained a second-class 
certificate, on which he taught three 
years. In 1870 he entered the ministry 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and was ordained in 1875. Since that 
tnne he has occupied the following 
circuits: Blenheim, Walsingham, Nan- 
tieoke, Stanley, Brussels, Cauboro, 
Tort Robinson, Rockford, and Tapley- 
town, his present charge, where he has 


been two years and returned for the 
third. The work ou each circuit Mr. 
Ecker has occupied has prospered 
under his faithful ministration. \Yhile 
unostentatious in his manner, lie is 
doing quiet, effectual work for the 
Church of God. In the truest sense of 
the word, he is a self-made man, having 
attained his present position by hard 
work and indomitable perseverance. 
Mr. Erker is a member of the Ancient 
( )nler Tinted Workmen. He was mar 
ried August 14, 1872, to Laura II., 
daughter of Rev. David Williams, who 
died on April 2ist, 1890, leaving two 
daughters. 


96 


MI:N 


CAXAI&gt;,\. 


&lt;TyiIUP HKXRY DRAYTON, 
V^ Toronto, Out., was born on 
ptember 27th, 1846, at Bar- 
})acl&lt;K-s, West Indies. His parents were 
inally from Northamptonshire, En.^. 
He was educated in Cheltenham Col 
lege, Knir. and in tlie Royal Military 
ColU-.yc, Knjr. He served as an officer 
in Her Majesty s service i6th Foot 
R.C.R. Regiment and Army ."- 
Corps. After coining to Canada lie 
Studied law in the office of Mes- 
[ ethn: r i\i M -^, 1 oronto. In 

: /ed the appointment 
Kxaminer and Lecturer in the old Law 
School. Toronto, and in 1X90 he received 


that of Lecturer in the new Law Scl. 
there, which is an evidence that he is 
thoroughly comix-tent for this impor 
tant position, and that his valuable ser 
vices rendered in the past are ap; 
dated. Mr. ]&gt;ravtoii wa-&gt; Alderman 
for the Ward of St. Thomas in Toronto 
for three years. While in the City 
Council he was chairman of the Hoard 
of Health, for which position he : 

ial adaptations and filled with 

lit to himself and the city. I Ic was 

married in the year i SON to Miss 

urnton, dani;!: C. W. Covern- 

ton, late chairman of the Provincial 
Ith. 


OF* CANADA. 


197 


\". FATHER M. J. TIERX AX, 
rector of St. Peter s Cathedral 
&lt;^&gt; and chancellor of the Lon 
don diocese, was born in May, 1846, 
two miles from Essex Centre. His 
father, James Tiernan, emigrated to the 
United States in 1830, and, after resid 
ing three years in New York, went to 
Kent, in Ohio, where he became ac 
quainted with Miss Ward, to whom he 
was married in 1834. The same year 
they removed to Detroit, and in 1835 
came to Canada, where he purchased 
one hundred acres of land in Essex 
County, and subsequently became 
owner of three hundred acres. During 


the Rebellion of 1837 he was forced to 
leave his family and went to the front, 
serving with the rank of sergeant until 
the close of the rebellion. His wife 
still lives on the old homestead at the 
advanced age of eighty-two. Father 
Tiernan remained on his father s farm 
until he was seventeen }-ears of age, 
and after receiving his early education 
in the parish school, obtained a first- 
class certificate. After teaching six 
months he entered in 1863 St. Vincent 
College, Latrobe, Pa., U.S.A., to study 
for the priesthood. He remained there 
four years, and then, on account of his 
health, he went to the Seminary of Our 
Lady of Angels at Niagara 
Falls. From this institu 
tion he graduated in 1869, 
and on December igth, 
1875, was ordained priest in 
the old Cathedral of London, 
Ontario, by His Lordship 
Bishop Walsh, now Arch 
bishop of Toronto, and in 
six weeks from that day 
was made chancellor of the 
diocese. For five years he 
was secretary to His Lord 
ship Bishop Walsh, and 
when the erection of the 
new magnificent cathedral 
was commenced, the finan 
cial transactions were placed 
in his hands. In less than 
five years the cathedral was 
practically completed and 
dedicated for service. The 
sum of $150,000 has already 
been expended upon it, but 
when the design is com 
pleted, it will cost not less 
than SiSo.ooo. The success 
of this undertaking is main 
ly due to the ability and per 
severance of Father Tiernan, 
who spared no pains to make 
it a credit to the Forest Citv. 


1 9 8 


MI.N OF CANADA 


ARRATT WILLIAM SMITH. 
C., D.C.L., of Summerhill. in 
9 tin.- township of York, was horn 
at Stonehouse, Devon, Kii^.. mi the 
29th of November, iSjo. He arrived 
in Toronto with his parents in 1833, 
and entered Upper Canada Collect.- the 
same year, leaving it in 1838, after a 
successful career, during which, amongst 
other numerous prizes, he carried off 
the prize poem for 1837. In August, 
1838, he entered the Upper Canada Law 
Society, and served five years under 
articles with the late Chief Justice 
I Draper, and was called to the Bar in 
Hilary Term, 1844. In 1843 he en 
tered the University of 
King s College, Toronto, 
and matriculating in Arts, 
passed on to law, and took 
the degrees of B.C.L. and 
D.C.L. respectively, the 
latter in 1852. He is a life 
member of the senate of 
Toronto University, and 
has occupied the positions 
of Pro-Yice-Chancellor and 
Vice-Chancellor in that in 
stitution. He has been con 
nected with several promi 
nent legal firms, and is at 
present the senior partner 
in that of Smith, Rae & 
Greer, and has been for 
many years a Bencher of 
the Law Society. He took 
,an active part in the militia 
during the Rebellion of 
,7, serving in the active 
force for a time until quiet 
was restored, and retired as 
senior major of the 6th 
I attalion of Toronto Militia 
a after the Trent excite 
ment had subsided, having 
previously qualified himself 
by passing through the 
Military School at Toronto. 


He lias occupied, and still occupies, 
many important position^ in public life, 
as president, vice-president, and director 
ot numerous companies, besides l&gt;eing 
connected with many important public 
trusts. In 1876 lie acted as chairman 
of the Royal Commission to investigate 
certain charges in connection with the 
Northern Railway. Mr. Smith is a 
Reformer, but has never taken any 
prominent part in politics. In religion 
he is a member of the Church of Eng 
land. He has been twice married and 
has ten children still living. He pos 
sesses great business capacity, and has 
a wonderful grasp of public affairs. 


OF- CANADA. 


199 


S 


;V. DAVID H. TAYLOR, of 
the Methodist Church, Port 
.^t Colborne, Out., was born in 
the year 1X47 at Oldham, Eng. He 
left England and came to Canada in 
;XXo, and was appointed successively 
to London for two years, Charing Cross 
for two years, Courtland for three 
years, Dnimbo for one year, and to 
Port Colborne for three years. In all 
these places the congregations greatly 
increased under Mr. Taylor s charge, 
and his removal from Port Colborne, 
the sphere of his present ministry, to 
Fonthill, is very deeply regretted by 
an attached people. He received his 


education at St. Domingo Street 
in Oldham, of which the Rev. J.Jackson 
"\Yray was principal, and his theological 
training for the Methodist ministry in 
connection with the Primitive Methodist 
Church, in England, and under the 
guidance of the Revs. W. Antliff, D.D., 
and James Gamer. He has six brothers 
in England and one in the United 
States, who are all actively engaged in 
mercantile life. His father is also still 
alive. Mr. Taylor, has a promising 
future before him in the church to which 
he has consecrated his talents and 
abilities. He was married in 1869 to 
.Miss Wild, of Oldham, Eug. 


MKN &lt; &gt;i ^ \\ A i &gt; \ 


JONATHAN ELLIS, Port Dover, 
Out., was born January i2th, 
1843, at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, 
Kng. His parents emigrated to Canada 
when he was only eighteen months old, 
and settled in Markham, York County. 
Here, at the public schools, Mr. Ellis 
received his education, and afterwards 
K-arued tlie business of printing. In 
iS6i he removed to Ancastcr, where he 
learned the business of manufacturing 
woollen jM ods. For the past eleven 
years he has been successfully en^a.^ed 
in the manufacture of knitted goods at 
Port I)o\-er, where lie owns a la- 
mill, giving employment to one hun 


dred hands. He is in religion a Metho 
dist, and has held most of the offices in 
the gift of the church open to laymen. 
He has been class leader, recording 
steward, local preacher, delegate t" 
annual conferences, and was delegate 
to the General Conferences of i SSo and 
ID. In politics he is a Reformer, 
and was the Reform camlidat .ith 

Norfolk for Dominion Parliament in 
the election ol I.SMI. He was i 
eral year- a member of the Municipal 
Council of Port I "&gt;th as Coun 

cillor and Reeve. Mr. Kllis was inar- 

64 to Mary Smith, Ancaster, 

( )ntario. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


2OI 


EDWIN THOMAS CAMPBELL, mechani 
cal dentist, Toronto, was born in that 
^&gt;S city on the ijth of September, 1865. 
He is the son of George Campbell. He was 
educated at the Toronto Model School, and in 
1880 began the study of mechanical dentistry in 
the office of J. B. How. Since that time he has 
given his attention to the higher grades of this 
line of dentistry. In 1888 he opened a Public 
Dental Laboratory to meet the wants of the 
profession, the better class of which have duly 
appreciated his efforts to advance this particular 
branch of the business, as he now receives work 
from not only Ontario, but throughout the 
Dominion. So far as known it is the only insti 
tution of its kind in Canada that manufactures 
gold, rubber, celluloid and aluminum plates, 
gold and porcelain crowns, bridge work, and the 
various appliances for regulating the malforma 
tion of the teeth. Mr. Campbell has already 
acquired an extensive business, which is daily 
increasing as his laboratory becomes more widely 
known. He was married on the ijth of 
September, 1889, to Edith Macklin, 
daughter of John Macklin, of Toronto. 


I!. /. MII.NKK. 


IV 


I. T l \Mrill-a. I. 


&lt;:YKKI,KY ZKY MILNKR, M.D., C.M., 

M.C.P.S.O., Toronto, Out., was born 
at Stratford on the 2 2nd of August. 
[865. He is the second son of the Rev. 
Jo:u:lhan Milner. Methodist clergyman, Toronto. 
Dr. Milner is a graduate of Trinity Vniversity. 
Toronto. His primary education was received 
at the various places where his father was 
stationed, and at Woodstock and Barrie High 
Schools. He began the study of medicine in 
1884 in Trinity Medical College, Toronto, and 
after graduating, he proceeded to New York 
city and took a post-graduate course at the 
1 olyclinic Hospital, in order to be thoroughU 
equipped. Returning to Canada he began the 
practice of his profession in Toronto in 1889, 
where he is fast gaining a reputation tor himsell 
as a skillful and successful practitioner. With 
hi* thorough course of study, both in Canada 
and the Tinted States, and diligent prosecution 
of his profession, he has. like many others in the 
rapidly extending city of Toronto, an au.-picious 
future before him. Dr. Milner is a member of 
the Independent Order of Foie.-4ers. and al&gt;o oi 
the Ancient Order of United \Yorkmen. 


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EV. PHILLIP JAS. BRENNAN, parish 
priest of St. Mary s, Out., was born on 
the 3ist of January, 1841, at Moon- 
coin, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and was edu 
cated at the National Schools in Ireland, and St. 
John s College, Waterford. Coming to Canada in 
1867, he entered the Grand Seminary, Montreal, 
and completed his theological education there 
in 1868. He was ordained priest the same ^ear 
by the Right Rev. John Walsh (now Archbishop 
of Toronto), and was appointed as assistant to 
the Bishop (in London) for six months. He 
was then assigned to Mount Cannel, where he 
labored ten years, doing hard pioneer work for 
the Church. He built a new church at Centralia, 
a priest s house at Mount Cannel, and established 
a separate school, during his residence there. 
When he left it in 1878 it was a self-supporting 
h. He was then appoointed to St. Mary s, 
where he has ever since remained, the faithful 
r of an attached people. Father Breuuaii 
i only popular among his own flock, but 
by all i ! : : t work stands 

monument of his dee]) interest in the 
church he loves so \s ; 


KT WILLIAM HILLARY, Ml ,. 
AIIMH.I. (int., was born on the ;, i --1 of 
Octolter, I*;,- , in Hublin, Ireland. 
He \\.is educated in Dublin and at the High 
School, Xavan, County of Meath. He ! 
tile stud)- of medicine in an apprentice 

with Sir George Owens, M.D., of Dublin, and 
came to Canada in 1856. He was licensed by 
the do\ -eminent Medical Board of Ontario in 
1857, and immediately afterwards l&gt;egan the 
practice of his profession at Laskay, King town 
ship, York County. He remained there for one 
year, and then removed to Spring Hill (King 
Station), where he remained another year. In 
1858 he removed to Aurora, where he has en 
joyed, for the last thirty-three j-ears, a very 
extensive practice. In 1872, on the restoration 
of Trinity Medical College, he was one of the 
first to join, and took his degree from there. Dr. 
Hillary is a memlier of the English Church, is 
a Conservative in politics, and a member of the 
Ma-onjc Brotherhood. He was married on the 
2nd of January, 1861, to Annie, daughter 
of the late Colonel Fry, of Aurora, for 
merly of Boyle, Ireland. 


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GKORGK SMITH. 


GEORGE SMITH, M.A., barrister, Wood 
stock, Out., was born at Glasgow, Scot 
land, in 1852, and in very early youth came to 
Canada, and located at Shakspeare, Perth County, 
Ont. He was educated at the Normal School, 
Toronto, and afterwards while teaching studied 
classics under the late Rev. Win. Robertson, 
AM., at Chesterfield, Ont. After this he at 
tended the Hamilton Collegiate Institute a short 
time, and then Toronto University, where he held 
the first Blake Scholarship in constitutional law 
and civil polity in 1878, obtained the degree of 
B.A. in 1879, and while Latin master of the 
Canadian Literary Institute, Woodstock, in 1880, 
obtained the degree of M.A. He then studied 
law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, from iSSi to 
iS.S), and commenced the practice of law at 
\Voodstock in 1884, where he has since remained, 
having succeeded in gaining the confidence ol 
his clients, and building up a steadily in- 
ing and lucrative practice. Mr. Smith is a 
Liberal in politics, and an ardent Free Tradn. 
He is a member of Knox Presbyterian Church, 
and secretary of the Woodstock Mechanics 
Institute. 


vY. JAMES WEBB, Xorthfield Centre, 
., was born on the 2ist of April, 
1846, in London township, County 
of Middlesex. He was educated at the public 
schools, and graduated at the Commercial College, 
London, taking grade "A" diploma. After 
wards he took a first-class teacher s certificate 
and taught four years before entering the minis 
try. He united with the M.E. Church in 1865, 
was licensed as a local preacher in 1873, and 
joined the Niagara Conference in 1875. Two 
years afterwards he was ordained deacon, and 
in 1879 was ordained elder by Bishop Carman. 
Mr. Webb has served the following circuits : 
London township, Southwold, Norwich, Mount 
Elgin, Charlotteville, Troy, Barton, Oakland, 
and Kelvin. He was statistical secretary for the 
Niagara Conference for seven years. He belongs 
to the A.O.U.W., is a member of the Grand 
Lodge, and a Master Workman, and also a Royal 
Templar. He has been very successful in his 
ministerial work. Mr. Webb was married to 

Ida A. Mover, daughter of Ryerson 

Moyer, County of Oxford, on the 25th 

of December, 1877. 


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CANADA. 


^^ ( ,. TKHlil.I-:. Hamilton s leading mer- 
_ A*- * chant in gentlemen s furnuhii 

^4. His business is ,, IK - tl, ;lt R . 
quires enterprise- and ability to successful: 
duct. No man in the city of Hamilton meets 
: uircincnts in a higher degree than Mr. 
Treble. His store is Im-ated on the corner ol 

King and James streets. The business was t-stab 
lishcd in iS;; v and has met with unvarying sue- 
since its inception, owing to the enterprise of 
the proprietor and the uniform excellence of his 
He imjjorts direct from the leading 
manufacturers, and keeps abreast with the latest 
and most fashionable novelties. The premises 
.pied by Mr. Treble are 40x56 feet and three 
stories high, and it takes thirty-five hands to 
meet the requirements of his extensive trade. He 
is a Canadian, a gentleman who thoroughly 
understands the details of his business, affable in 
manner and very popular with the public. This 
enterprising house is connected with the Domi 
nion Shirt Factory- and the Hamilton Tie Mann 
facturing Co. At the Industrial Kxposi- 
tion of Toronto in 1883. Mr. Treble 
obtained the silver medal. 


RKV. G. II. KKNNKV. 


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KV. GIvO. HKXKV KKNNKV, Mine- 
sing, Simcoe County, Ont., was born in 
3? the township of Trafalgar, Halton 
County. Ont., on the 2nd of July, 1833. He 
was educated at the Oakville Grammar School, 
and completed his theological education at the 
New York Conference Seminary. Before going 
to the Seminary, he taught public school for two 
* years in Canada, and after leaving the Seminary 
in 1857, was appointed Principal of Hobait 
Seminar&gt; , and of Plattsville Academy in / 
He returned to Canada in 1859, and in l-Ybruai\ , 
1860, was sent by the Rev. R. Jones to supply 
the Grand River Mission of the \\Y-!e\ an 
Methodist Church until the meeting of the Con 
ference. At the Confer In wu 

ceived as a probationer for the regular ministry 
of the Methodist Chnrrh. and ordained at the 
Conference of 1X64. Hi wafl m.iiiied on the 
ll of June, is . 4. to I.ydia, daughter &lt; . ] . 
McCullough, J-isu., of Navaii and sister of 
the lat. A illiam and Jas. I! M, Cnllongh. 

Koth are now dead. Mr Kinii 

the Ottawa Iiistrid in 1X711, and financial 
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MCDONALD, M.D., 

ville. Out., was born in the year 1840 
5-. at West Zorra, County of Oxford. 
He received his education in the Zorra public 
school, and afterwards engaged in teaching for a 
period of five years, and then finished at the 
Normal School, Toronto. After this he took 
a regular course in medicine, and, immediately 
after graduation, began the practice of his pro 
fession in Fullerton, County of Perth, where he 
remained for eight years. He then removed to 
Hagersville, where he has practiced for the past 
fourteen years. His business is very large and 
lucrative, not only in Hagersville, but in the sur 
rounding neighborhood. Dr. McDonald is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. He is 
Coroner for the County of Haldimand, Master of 
Hiram Lodge, No. 319, Masonic Body, and 
P.D.D.G.M. of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. In politics he belongs to the Reform 
party. He was married in 1872 to Miss Rosilla 
Elvin, of Whitby, Out. His long experience as 
a medical man gives him an enviable place 
in the esteem and confidence of the 
public wherever he is known. 


Ki;V. J. II COLLINS 


K MiDONAI.Ii. 


JAMES HUBERT COLLINS, Mer 
ritton. Out., was born August 2dth, 
1846, in Devonshire, Eng. He came 
to Canada at eight years of age, and was con 
verted to God when thirteen years old. He re 
ceived a teacher s certificate while attending the 
public school in Saxon settlement. He taught 
school one term, then attended Bowmanville 
High School and Victoria College, Cobourg. In 
i.So.s he entered the ministry in the Bible 
Christian Church. His first appointment was 
Exeter, and then I sborne and London succes 
sively. For seven years he labored in Summer- 
side, P.E.I., three years at Murray Harbor, three 
in Hamilton, two at Stoncy Creek, and three a I 
Burford. This is his second year at Merritton. 
He was chairman of Norwich District for 1890. 
and is the Conference treasurer of the Contingent 
Fund. Mr. Collins enjoys the confidence of hi&gt; 
brethren in the ministry, and is recogni/ed as an 
able preacher and a successful pa&gt;tor, and holds 
a warm place in the affection of the people to 
whom he lias ministered on his various charge-. 
He- was married in 1873 to Miss Eli/a M. 
I eiihale. of Exeter, Out. 


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CANAOA. 


CAPTAIN II. J. McULAMIAN. 


SNRY JOHN McGLASHAX was torn 
in Montreal, July ^ist, 1856, and was 
*&&amp;gt; married May the 28th, 1878, to Janet 
O Dell. He was educated in the Montreal 
High School and for four years with the Rev. 
Narcisse Garout, Berth ier, Que. He lived for 
twenty-one years in Montreal and vicinity. His 
mother died when he was a child, his father two 
years ago. Mr. McGla.shan was for some time 
with his father, a water-works contractor, for two 
years in real estate and commission business, and 
for fifteen years accountant with the Grand Trunk 
Railway. He is at present city passenger agent, 
in Brantford, for the Canadian Pacific Railway ; 
manager of the Canadian Pacific Telegraph 
Company ; agent for the Dominion Kx press 
Company, New York Life Insurance Company, 
Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool and London 
ami ( ,lnl&gt;e Insurance Company. He is also agent 
fur the Allan, Anchor. Iiiman. Dominion and 
11 TV. Jr. religion lie attends 
the Methodist Church. 11- i member 

of the Bnintfnnl I!". ml nt , HI in the 

Han Militia, and member of the Canadian 
Orde: 


"Tt JTORGAN BALDXVIX. n..ri...i- Ma- 

JL\ I the Port of Toionto, was Lorn in that 

V , ;t\ ,,n tin- jl.th ,,f J,,,; 11,. 

is a sun of the late John Spread Baldwin, mer 
chant, and brother of the Bishop of Huron, 
and a!so of the Rev. A. H. Baldwin, of All 
Saints Church, Toronto. He was edr. 
at private schools and I pper Canada College, 
after which, at a very early age, he con 
cluded to gratify his youthful ambition and 
went to sea for a short time. In 
he was elected to fill the aldermanic chair for 
St. Thomas Ward, and was for five years an 
active member of the City Council, during 
which he filled many important positions. In 
f88o he was appointed Harbor Master of the 
Port of Toronto, which he still holds, to the 
satisfaction of all parties. Mr. Baldwin is a 
member of the Church of England. He is also 
a member of the Irish Protestant Benevolent 
Society. In 1855 he married Frances E., eldest 
daughter of \V. C. Ross, merchant, Toronto. He 
has two daughters and one son living, the 
latter being the well-known minister, 
Rev. F. M. Baldwin, of Aylmer, Out. 


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|KV. THOMAS W. JACKSON, 
Beamsville, son of Mark Jack- 
son, Durham County, Out., 
\vas Ixirn March 5th, 1843, a t Bilsdale, 
Yorkshire, Eng. He spent his early 
years on the farm, and was educated at 
the public school in Leskard, and the 
Normal .School, Toronto, in the same 
classes with James L. Hughes, Public 
School Inspector, Toronto, and Dr. 
Russell, principal of Hamilton Lun;iti&lt; 
Asylum. He entered the \\Vsleyan 
ministry in 1867, and was ordained in 
Belleville, June, 1871, by the late Rev. 
Dr. W. Morley Punshon. He has been 
stationed at Listowel, Draytou, Erin, St. 


George, Otterville, Oxford Centre, Tal- 
botville, Brownsville, West Flamboro, 
Jarvis and Beamsville. Mr. Jackson 
has been repeatedly Secretary of Dis 
trict, and in i8S8 was Secretary of 
Niagara Conference of the Methodist 
Church, and Chairman of Sinicoe Dis 
trict. He was a member of the General 
Conference of 1890, and on the Execu 
tive of the Provincial Sabbath School 
Association daring 1889 and 1890. He 
i married June 2ist, 1X71, to Janet 
Inglis, eldest daughter of Rev. James 
Boyd, for twenty-nine years Presby 
terian minister at Crossbill, County 
Waterloo. 


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SAMUEL LYLE, B.D., 
Hamilton, Out., was born July 
^s i6th, 1841, at Knockanboy, 
Count}- Antrim, Ireland. He received 
his education at Ballymoney and Cole- 
raine High Schools, Magee College, 
Londonderry, Glasgow University, and 
&gt;\v Free College. His parents 
intended that he should take up busi- 
3, but he chose the sacred ministry, 
and alter a university and theological 
course of seven years, was licensed by 
the Route Presbytery in iSo.s. The 
same year he received a call from 
Armagh, and another from Connor, the 
largest church in the Irish Assembly, 


which latter he accepted. During his 
ministration there he was a inembe: 
the Mission Board, also of the Susten- 
tation Fund, and was sent as a re] 

sentative from the Irish to the \V&lt; 
Church. While here he received calls 
from 1 k-1 fast, Brooklyn, X.V.. and tlu- 
Central Church, Hamilton, which latter 
he accepted, and was inducted in 1X78. 
Since residing in Hamilton lie lias 
served on the a Mission Board, 

the College Board, ECnOX Senate, b- 

vice-president of the Art School, and 
president of Hamilton ition. Mr. 

Carried in iS;. , to Kli/uheth 
, of Dublin, Ireland. 


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209 


TV RTHUR HEXRY 
WELCH, jeweller, 
" Toronto, was born 
at Barton, Hamilton, Ont., 
May 5th, 1850. He is the 
son of the late Henry James 
Welch, architect and con 
tractor, Toronto. He re 
ceived his education in the 
public and model schools of 
Toronto, and at an early 
age became apprenticed to 
W. C. Morrison, jeweller. 
In 1869 he went to New 
York city and spent two 
years as journeyman with 
Chatelier & Spence, leading 
manufacturing jewellers on 
Broadway. In 1872 he re 
turned to Toronto and be 
came a manufacturer for 
many of the leading whole 
sale jewellers. In 1879 he 
entered into partnership 
with E. M. Trowern, which 
partnership continued for 
six years, during which 
time they entered more 
fully into the retail busi 
ness. In 1890 he took into 
partnership R. T. Blach- 
ford, the firm being known 
as Welch & Blachford, manufacturing 
jewellers, watchmakers, diamond setters, 
etc., at 171 Yonge street, making a 
specialty of society presentation jewels, 
emblems, badges, etc. He has been 
most successful in fine artistic work, 
and has been awarded silver and bronze 
medals at the various expositions, and 
also five first prizes for fine artistic 
jewellery. Mr. Welch is a member of 
Parkdale Methodist Church, and has 
been for many years superintendent of 
the Sunday School, class leader and 
local preacher, and is most abundant 
iu his labors in behalf of the denomi 
nation. He is also a member of the 


Masonic brotherhood, District Deputy 
Grand Master of the Canadian Order 
of Odd Fellows, and Vice Chief Ranger 
of the Canadian Order of Foresters, 
and a member of the Knights of 
Honor. He is a phrenologist of extra 
ordinary p&lt;&gt;\ver, and has in his posses 
sion many certificates as to his mar 
velous abilities in this science, from 
many of the leading citizens of To 
ronto. He gives lectures on this in 
teresting science as often as his exten 
sive business relations will allow. In 
1870 Mr. Welch was married to Miss 
Amelia Henning, daughter of the late 
Robert Henning, Toronto. 


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JOSEPH TAIT, Esq., M.P.P., 
Toronto, was born on October 
aist, 1839, in K irk ud bright- 
shire, Scotland. His father s name 
being John Tail, and his mother s 
maiden name Miss Williamson Clarke. 
Mr. Tail was educated in the parish 
school of Kirkpatrick, Durham, Scot 
land, and afterwards served his appren 
ticeship to a baker and worked for a 
time in Edinburgh, and in 1871 came 
to the United States. After remaining 
IK year in Pennsylvania, he canu 
Canada and settled in Toronto, wh 
he became manager of a baking estab 
lishment. Alter a time he bought &lt;&gt;ut 


the business, and lias v 
carried it on at the same 
place. He lias been j&gt;;- 
dent of the Master Hak&lt; 
Association for I 
and is a member &lt;&gt;f the 
Methodist Church. He lias 
been a local preacher for 
manj- years, and also a 
member of the last two 
General Conferences. In 
1889 he was elected to tin- 
City Council of Toronto as 
alderman for St. John s 
Ward, and in 1890 was 
elected representative for 
one of the divisions in 
Toronto to the Ontario 
Legislature. In politics, 
Mr. Tail is a pronounced 
Liberal, and a most effective 
speaker on the platform, 
rendering great service to 
his party whenever called 
upon in connection with 
Dominion and Provincial 
campaigns. He is a mem 
ber of the A.O.U.W., of the 
Select Knights, a member 
of the Toronto Board of 
Trade, and a director of the 
Globe Printing Company. 
As a member of the Local Legislature 
of Toronto high expectations are formed 
of Mr. Tail s future career. Ready in 
debate, fearless in expression, and pos 
sessed of a large amount of practical 
knowledge and sterling common sense, 
he cannot be but of great service to the 
province. Mr. Tait was married in 
1863 to Miss Lizzie McKie. of Dum 
fries, Scotland, who died in 1X72. In 
iS; ) lie married his second wife M 
Su :"ord, of Eglinton, &lt; hit. He 

has one son living John Williamson 
Tait by his first wife, who is engaged 
with him in the large and lucrative 
Inisi : ibli shell 


MEN 


CANADA. 


211 


FERGUS P. McEVAY, 
Rector of St. Mary s Cathedral, 
^ Hamilton, Out., was born at 
Lindsay, Out., on the 8th of December, 
1852. He received his education at 
Lindsay separate school, St. Michael s 
College, Toronto, St. Francis Seminary, 
Milwaukee, and the Grand Seminary, 
Montreal. He took the Dowling medal 
for literature at St. Michael s in the 
class of 1877, and stood high in all his 
classes and captured several pri/cs. 
He was ordained priest on the 9th of 
July, 1882, and was then appointed 
parisli priest for Kern-Inn Kails, where 
he remained five years. While in this 


parish he had charge of 
several churches, scattered 
over a wide area, and did 
much travelling on horse 
back, administering the 
comforts of religion to the 
people and accomplishing a 
heroic work. After this he 
was appointed rector of St. 
Peter s Cathedral, Peter 
borough, and Chancellor of 
the Diocese. On May ist, 
1889, on the occasion of the 
translation of Bishop Dow- 
ling to Hamilton, it was ar 
ranged between the Bishop 
of Peterborough and the 
Bishop of Hamilton that he 
should be transferred to the 
diocese of the latter, which 
arrangement was subse 
quently ratified at Rome, 
and he obtained a new 
tituJiis for the diocese of 
Hamilton. Soon after this 
he was appointed rector of 
St. Mary s Cathedral, which 
position he still holds with 
great acceptability. Father 
McEvay has been very suc 
cessful, not only in the 
spiritual work of the Church, 
but also in church building and repair- 
ing.^ While in Peterborough he ably 
carried out the Bishop s idea in erecting 
St. Joseph s Hospital and several other 
important improvements in connection 
with the Church there. Since his ar 
rival at Hamilton, he has been in labors 
abundant, supervising the erection of 
the magnificent new presbytery, St. 
Lawrence Church, and a beautiful 
mortuary chapel and vault at Rock 
Hay Cemetery, as well as extensive 
repairs to the Cathedral. His busy 
life contains the fullest evidence of his 
untiring efforts to promote the interests 
of his beloved church. 


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I.KX. MANNING, 
Manning Arcade, 
" Toronto, son of 
the late William .Manning, 
was born in Dublin, Ireland, 
May nth, 1819, and edu 
cated in that city. He came 
to Toronto in 1834, the first 
year of its incorporation, 
where he resided until 
after the Rebellion of 1837. 
Business being greatly de 
pressed, he went to Ohio in 
1838, where he commenced 
business as a contractor, con- 
timiing until he returned to 
Toronto in 1840. Entering 
into building operations, he 
erected stores, residences 
and churches, restored the 
Parliament Buildings in 
1849, " hen the Government 
removed from Montreal to 
Toronto, and erected the 
first saw-mill and factory in 
the city, using the first 
large circular saw in cutting 
long timber. He erected 
the Normal School in 1853 
and the Parliament Library 
at Ottawa. He built several 
railways in Canada and the 
United States, also constructed several 
sections of the new Welland Canal, 
and constructed many other public 
works. Having faith in the future 
growth of Toronto as a commercial 
city, he invested his means in the pur 
chase of real estate and the erection of 
buildings, becoming a large property 
owner. Mr. Manning has taken a deep 
interest in matters pertaining to the 
city s growth. He was elected alder 
man in 1856, serving several years. 
He was twice elected mayor, and is a 
director in several companies and cor 
porations. He is president of the Pro 
testant Benevolent Society, National 


Club, Trader s Bank and Toronto 
Home for Incurables, which he inau 
gurated when mayor in 1873. In reli 
gion he is Church of England; in poli 
tics Liberal Conservative, and is a 
Mason. He was twice married first 
to Miss Whittemore in 1850, (sister ol" 
the late E. F. Whittemore, merchant. 
Toronto). Mr. Manning was married 
again in iS6i to Miss Smith, daughter 
of the late Hon. Hollis Smith, of Slier- 
brooke. His long career in Toronto 
has been marked by great energy, ; 
severance and temperate habits. Hr 
has declined nomination to parliament 
to represent the Queen City. 


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EXRY RICHARDS, Mayor of 
Botlnvell, Out., was born at 
Bingham, Nottinghamshire, 

Kiig., in the year 1842. He received 
his education at the public school in 
England. He left school at the age of 
fifteen, and came to Canada in 1861 
and settled in Woodstock, where he re- 
mained five j-cars. He then removed 
to Botlnvell, where he engaged in the 
man u factnre of potash , which lie shipped 
in large quantities to Montreal and 
OtherpointS. 1 Ie also did a considerable 
trade in the way of shipping unleached 
ashes to the Eastern vStates, to be used 
as a fertilizer for corn and other crops. 


Mr. Richards was for a number of 
years councillor, and is now filling, with 
much acceptance, the office of Mayor 
of Bothwell for a second term. He is 
a member of the Methodist Church, 
and in politics is a Conservative. He 
belongs to the Masonic Brotherhood, 
and also to the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows. He has been twice mar 
ried first, in the year 1867, to Martha 
Ann Rippon, and again, in 1885, to 
Sarah Morrison, daughter of John 
Fit/patrick Morrison. He has a family 
of three daughters and five sons, his 
eldest son being in the -AVrvra office, 
Woodstock. 


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HTHRO GERSH. ROBERTS, 
L.D.S., D.D.S., of Brampton, 
&lt; )ut., was born in Peel County 
oi: January I9th, 1863. He received 
his elementary education at the Bramp 
ton public and High schools, and his 
professional training at the Toronto 
&gt;ol of Dentistry, Toronto, and the 
Philadelphia Dental College and Medico 
Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. 
I .S. He entered the Royal College in 

radnatedwith honors in i&gt; 
receiving also the coll, i medal for 

the best practical work. After complet 
ing his studies, he began practice with 
Dr. J. I ,. Wilmott. whose biography ap- 


pears in this volume. In 1888 he gra 
duated from the Philadelphia Dental Col 
lege and received the degree of D.D.S. 
That same year he was appointed ] . . 
aminer in the Royal Col: I &gt;ental 

Surgeons, Toronto, and in the Univer 
sity of Toronto. Dr. Roberts is a 
member of the MethodiM Church, and 
of the Quarterly Board. In poli 
tics he is a Conservative. He was mar 
ried October ;y&gt;th, iS.S(). to I-Yaiu 
daughter of J. T\, of Hramptoii. 

Out. Hi- life thus far has been mar , 
throughout by that ability and ene: 
which must yet place him at the h- 
of his chosen ; on. 


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P. WRIGHT, 
B.D., Portage la 
) Prairie, Manitoba, 
was born at Westruther, 
Berwickshire, Scotland, in 
1839. He received his 
elementary education at the 
parish school of his native 
village. In 1859 he came 
to Canada, and for two years 
engaged in agricultural pur 
suits, having charge of a 
farm near Cobourg, Out. 
During this time he was 
prosecuting his studies in 
private. On examination 
he obtained a teacher s cer 
tificate of the highest grade, 
and for two years devoted 
himself with great success 
to the teaching profession, 
meanwhile preparing for 
matriculation in Toronto 
University. For three years 
after this he was principal 
of Norwood High School, 
and for one year principal 
of St. Mary s High School. 
In these positions he was 
eminently successful, and 
received the highest testi 
mony as to his skill and 
proficiency from the trustees, and espe 
cially from the late Professor Young, 
then Inspector of High Schools. But 
he felt called to the ministry, and re 
signing his position at St. Mary s, re 
turned to Knox College, completed his 
theological studies in 1870, and in the 
same year was ordained and inducted 
as pastor of Hrskine Presbyterian 
Church, Ingersoll. After being twice- 
called to Chalmer s Church, Quebec, 
in February, 1875, he accepted the call 
and removed there. Three year s after 
this he accepted a call to Chalmer s 
Church, Montreal, where, in addition to 
his ministerial duties, he rendered 


t. 

wr^* 


efficient service in the Presbyterian 
College. From Montreal Mr. Wright 
was translated to Knox Church, Strat 
ford, where he labored most successfully 
for nine years. In 1889 he accepted 
an urgent call to his present charge in 
Manitoba, where part of his family 
had already settled, and where his 
influence and missionary zeal are a 
tower of strength to the Presbyterian 
cause in that land. He was married 
in 1864 to Agnes McGregor, of Balti 
more-, Out. Mr. Wright is an intense 
ly earnest, eloquent and evangelical 
preacher, and, as a pastor, diligent, 
U mlcr and faithful. 


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hardship! and privations in 
cident to a IH-W and un 
cleared country. In early 
youth he was employed 
n])on his father s farm, and 
attended school in tin- ]&lt;&gt;x 
school house situated near 
his father s home as op] 
tunity presented itself. His 
education was necessarily 
intermittent, sometimes two 
days in school and one out 
of school, attending to farm 
duties, in order to pa) 1 debts 
connected with the farm. 
With an ambition highly 
commendable, and charac 
teristic of many Canadian 
youths, he applied himself 
to acquire such an educa 
tion as would fit him for 
teaching, and thus qualified 
at the age of 18, he began 
the teaching profession, and 
continued in it for fourteen 
years, eight years of which 
he taught in his native 
section, and six years in 
school section No. 8, An- 
caster. After this he moved 
to Brantford and embarked 

J&lt; &gt;HN ARCHIBALD LEITCH, calling, as "hi s^b^teaS* ^2 

Brantford, Out., was bom on success crowned his efforts. Through 

the roth of October, 1843, in energy and honest dealing he soon 

the township of Dunwich, County of obtained the confidence of the public, 

Elgin. He was educated first in the and before long made his way to the top 

public schools of his native section, and of the ladder among his fellow compcti- 

afterwards in the Grammar schools of tors in the race for wealth and position 


London and St. Thomas. His parents. 
Archibald and Flora Leitch, emigrated 
from the Highlands of Scotland, Argyle- 
sliire, in 1842, and settled in the 
wilds of Dunwich, \Vest Elgin, where 
they set out at once to make a 
home for themselves i" what was 
then a dense forest. It was hen- that 
Mr. Leitch was raised under the se- 


Mr. Leitch holds a first-class Grade A. 
Provincial Certificate. In religion his 
views are in accord with that of the &lt; &gt;!d 
School or Primitive Baptists. In poli- 
tics he is a Reformer, and also a fustic* 
of the Peace for the County of Brant. 
Mr Leitch was married fnly i.S, 1X71. 
to Manha Ann. dau-ht. Thomas 

Sha\er. of Ancaster Township. 


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217 


=&gt;^T^EV. MALCOLM L. LEITCH, 
\\ Stratford, Out., was born on 
V&gt; the 23rd of August, 1855, 
in the township of Metcalf, County of 
Middlesex. He is descended from 
Scotch parentage, his parents being 
H. J. Leitch and Catherine McLaughlin, 
natives of Scotland. Mr. Leitch was 
educated at the public school in Mid 
dlesex and the Collegiate Institute of 
Strathroy, Ont. He afterwards entered 
McGill University and the Presbyterian 
College in Montreal, where he com 
pleted his theological course. He was 
ordained by the Presbytery of Montreal 
in 1885, and became pastor of the Pres- 


byterian Church at Valleyfield, Quebec, 
In 1889 he received a unanimous call 
to Knox Church, Elora, where he 
labored for over two years with un 
usual success. Says an Elora cor 
respondent : " He is a fearless and out 
spoken preacher ; an unwearying visi 
tor, and lives in the esteem of all classes 
here." In June, 1891, he received a 
call to Knox Church, Stratford, which 
he accepted, and has just entered upon 
his work there. Mr. Leitch is a mem 
ber of the Order of I.O.O.F. He was 
married July I4th, iSS;, to Flora 
Stewart, daughter of A. C. Macdonnell, 
Williamstown, Glengarry County, Ont. 


MI--.N OK CANADA. 


1850. 


BERT ARMSTRONG ROSS, 
B.A., M.D., Barrie, Out., was 
^ born in Barrie, October 3rd, 
He is a son of the late Robert 
Ross, P.L.S., and Elizabeth Wallace, 
who were among the first settlers of the 
uitv. He received his primary educa 
tion in Barrie Grammar School, and in 
1*71 entered Toronto University, from 
which he graduated in 1874. After this 
he entered Trinity Medical College and 
.dnated with honors in 1877, taking 
the silver medal for general profu-ii-m-v. 
He was then appointed Hon^e Surgeon 
in the Toronto Genera] Hospital, wl 
he remained eighteen months, after 


which he went to Europe and studied 
in the hospitals of Edinburgh and 
London. In 1880 he began practice in 
Barrie, where he has had marked suc 
cess, and is in the enjoyment of a large 
and lucrative practice. Dr. Ross tal 
an active part in municipal matti 
He is a member of the Council, also of 
the Srhool Board. He is also a mem 
ber of the Masonic body, of the Inde 
pendent ( nler of Foresters, of the 
Independent &lt; &gt;nler of" odd Fell 
the Amient Order I nited Workmen, 
and other fraternal ori;anixations. In 
religion he is an : palian, and in 

politics a Conservative. 


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219 


v - w T L T T A M 

M. POMEROY, 
^S) Florence, County 
of Lambton, Out., son of 
the Rev. Daniel Pomeroy, 
was bom on the loth of 
July, 1849, i 11 the village of 
Newburgh, Out. He re 
ceived his education first 
at the Grammar School of 
Newburgh, and afterw r ards 
at Albert College, of which 
the Rev. Dr. Carman, now 
General Superintendent of 
the Methodist Church, was 
principal for many years. 
Mr. Pomeroy made a public 
profession of his faith in 
Christ at the early age of 
ten years, and became a 
licentiate and Sunday School 
superintendent at the age of 
sixteen. In 1868 he was 
received as a probationer in 
the Ontario Annual Con 
ference, and has continued 
in the Methodist ministry 
without cessation from that 
time until the present, re 
ceiving every year flattering 
certificates as to his accept 
ability and success in the 
work of the pastorate. During the 
twenty-three years of his ministry, he 
has been superintendent of twelve cir 
cuits in different parts of Ontario, and 
has been exceedingly successful in add 
ing largely to the membership of the 
church, and also in erecting churches 
and parsonages in many of the charges 
where he has been stationed. He is 
well known in the denomination and 
among his brethren for his ability in 
raising money for congregational and 
denominational purposes. Mr. Poiiie- 
roy is a thorough student, an able and 
fluent speaker, a thoroughly sound 
theologian, and inherits, to a large 


extent, the well known force and energy 
of his father, who was recogni/ed as 
one of the foremost preachers of his 
day in the denomination. As he is 
still in middle age, his well known at 
tainments, studious habits, pulpit and 
pastoral ability will doubtless secure 
for him still more prominent positions 
in his church. He was married on the 
5th of April, 1871,10 Sarah Alice Bird, 
of the township of Sidney. The secret 
of Mr. Ponierov s power and success is 
due to the fact that while yet in early 
youth he gave his heart to the Saviour, 
and built deep down on the Rock of 
Ages. 


MICN or CANADA 


YV /ALTER NICHOLL HOSSIE, 
* Bursar Institution for the 
Blind, Brantford, Out., was born on 
December 9th, 1831, at Denny Loan 
Head, Stirlingshire, Scotland. His 
parents came to this country in 1833 
and settled in the township of Moore, 
County of Lambton. Mr. Hossie was 
educated at the Sarnia public school, 
and the Goderich Grammar School. 
( )u leaving school he served one season 
on board the "Olive Branch," another 
on the " Amherstlmrgh," and two 
-us on the "Siubad." In those 
days there were no railways in Canada, 
and while thus employed, he had the 


opportunity of visiting all 
the leading cities along tin- 
water front from Oni bcc 
wrst, a privilc; aly 

pri/ed. In iX.]i&gt; and i 
lie was engaged clearing 
timber laud, and in iS^j 
was employed in a general 
store in Goderich. In 1858 
he entered the sheriff s 
office at Stratford as clerk 
and deputy, and on the 
separation of Peel from the 
County of York, he received 
the appointment of deputy 
sheriff, which office he held 
from 1867 to 1873, when 
he was appointed by the 
Ontario Government to his 
present position. In politics 
Mr. Hossie is a Liberal. 
In religion he is an active 
member and office-bearer 
of the Presbyterian Church. 
He united with the church 
in Goderich, was elected to 
the eldership in Brampton, 
and afterwards in Zion 
Church, Brantford, which 
office he now holds. Mr. 
Hossie has been repeated 
ly representative at Pres 
byteries, Synods and General Assem 
blies, and also superintendent of the 
Sabbath School. At Goderich, Strat 
ford and Brampton he was connected 
with the Tract and Bible Societies, was 
delegate to the International Sabbath 
School Association at Chicago in iSS; 
and Pittsburg in 1890, and in 1891 
unanimously appointed president of 
the Ontario Provincial Sabbath School 
Association. Mr. Hossie was married 
in 1856 to Emeliue Brace, n^air. in 
1867 to Sarah Gordon Mc\Yhinn&gt; 
and, in i.S.S.j, to his present wife, 
Margaret Reid McCormack, of Cleve 
land, &lt; &gt;liio. 


OF- CA.NADA. 


221 


|EV. E. B. CHESTNUT, pastor 
of Haynes Avenue, St. Catha- 
rines, and St. David s Pres 
byterian Church, was born nth March, 
1857, i 11 the County of Antrim, Ireland. 
He was educated at Queen s College, 
Belfast, and afterwards at the Presby 
terian colleges in Belfast and London 
derry. He entered college at the age 
of sixteen years, and in 1880 received 
license from the Presbytery of Route, 
and was ordained to the ministry in 
Second Ardstraw by the Presbytery 
of Strabane on the ist of September, 
1880. In May, 1884, he received and 
accepted a call to the congregation of 


Second Monaghan, and was installed 
over that congregation on the 8th of 
July of that same year. In 1889 he 
emigrated to Canada, and after being 
received into the Presbyterian Church 
of the Dominion, was called and in 
ducted to the congregations of which he- 
is now pastor. During Mr. Chestnut s 
pastorates in the churches in Ireland, 
extensive repairs were effected upon the 
buildings, and considerable progress 
made in church work. His ministry 
in Canada promises to be attended with 
equally as good results. He is an 
able preacher and diligent pastor, and 
greatly loved by his people. 


Mrcx OP* CA.NADA. 


JAMES yUINN, J.P., Orillia, 
Ont., was bom April 20, 1816, 
at Coothill, County Caven, 
Ireland. His parents were John Qninn 
and Ann Coulson. He was educated 
at the private schools of his native 
county in Ireland. His father died 
while he was but an infant, and at the 
age of sixteen years Mr. Quinn emi 
grated to Canada and settled in Medonte, 
and has lived chiefly in Orillia for the 
last fifty years of his life. He has 
been a member of the Town Council 
for a great number of years, was the 
first reeve appointed in the town of 
Orillia, and held the office* at intervals 


for the long period of twenty-five years. 
In 1883 he was appointed warden for 
the County of Simcoe. Mr. Quinn 
was for many years a highly re 
spected and successful merchant in 
the town. He is a member of the 
Church of England, and in politics 
is a Conservative. He has taken 
an active part in the election of repre 
sentatives, and on two occasions con 
tested the East Riding, County of 
Simcoe, and reduced the Liberal ma 
ty by four hundred. Mr. Ouinn 
was married on the ;,nl of June, iS6l, 
to Mary Wilson hter of Mr. 

Thorburn, a native of Scotland. 


CANADA. 


223 


THOMAS LEADEN GILLIES, of 

-*- Port Dover, Out., was born in 
March, 1830, in the town of Gnelph, 
Count)- of Wellington. He was edu 
cated in the public school of Port 
Dover, and being anxious to equip him 
self for business life, secured the most 
thorough education his surroundings 
rind opportunities afforded. He spent 
a considerable period of his earlier life 
in Australia, but not finding that coun 
try quite congenial to his taste, he attain 
went abroad and travelled over a large 
portion of the globe. lie subsequently 
returned to this continent and located 
in Port Dover, and being desirous of 


embarking in commercial life, he soon 
identified himself with the best in 
terests of the community, and com 
menced a large business in lumbering 
and carriage making, in which he was 
very successful, retiring with a com 
petency. Mr. Gillies was for many 
years reeve of Port Dover; in fact he 
has occupied nearly every civic position 
in the gift of the people, and is univer 
sally respected as a man of character 
and integrity. In politics he is a Re 
former, and in religion a Presbyterian. 
He was married in 1859 to Sarah, 
second daughter of the late Abraham 
Masecar. 


or CANAF&gt;A. 


KY. FREDERICK VEIT, Tavi- 
stock, Ont., was born on the 
_ i6th of February, 1845, at 
Michelbach, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, 
many. He received his education 
in Germany, at tlie Lutheran Seminary, 
Philadelphia, Pa., and at Thiel College, 
iVnusylvania. He was trained for the 
ministry, and as soon as his education 
was completed, joined the Lutheran 
Ministerium of Pennsylvania. He was 
ordained on the 2Qth of May, iSyj, and 
accepted a call to the Lutheran Trinity 
Church, Tavistock, rind was inducted 
in June, 1X72. Since his pastorate tl 
the membership of the church has 


largely increased, and one of the most 
beautiful churches in Western Ontario 
has been erected. It has a very la 
tower, in which are three bells, and 
a. clock with four dials. Mr. Veil lias 
been twice president of the Canada 
Synod, having held that office for tin- 
past four years, previous to that held tin- 
same office for three years, has been 
aminer of candidates for the past 15 years, 
and for four years co-editor of tin- 
/\, i !h&gt;ibl(itt, the organ of his denomi 
nation. Mr. Yrit has been twice mar 
ried first on November i, 1X72. to 
Eli/abeth Stahlschmidt, and again in 
1*77. to Marth Hallccn. 


OF* CANADA. 


"OHN GEORGE 

STEWART, V.S., 

Brantford, Ontario, 
was horn March 10, 1853, 
in the township of Mari- 
posa, Victoria County, Out. 
He began his education at 
public schools, and com 
pleted it at the Commercial 
College. He commenced 
practical life by learning 
the trade of a horse-shoer, 
for which he soon developed 
such rare skill and fine 
adaptation that his time was 
fully occupied in attending 
to the most important and 
difficult work in this line. 
His reputation and success 
soon warranted him in open 
ing up business for himself 
in the city of Brantford, 
where for years he has done 
a large and profitable trade. 
Mr. Stewart s ambition soon 
led him to take up the study 
of veterinary surgery and 
medicine, which he pursued, 
while carrying on his busi 
ness, with such determina 
tion and success that, in 
1883, ne graduated from the 
Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, 
with first-class honors. He immediate 
ly entered upon the practice of his pro 
fession in the city of Brantford, and 
from the start had a large practice, 
which has steadily increased. In the 
same year in which he graduated, he 
was appointed Government Veterinary 
Inspector for the County of Brant. 
I r. Stewart is also a registered member 
of the Veterinary and Medical Associa 
tion of Ontario. For three years in 
succession i SSS, iXSo., and i~Xo&lt;&gt; he 
was alderman for the city of Brant 
ford, and during the two last mentioned 
years was chairman of the Committee 


I 


on Buildings and Grounds. During 
his presidency, and under his super 
vision, the new Police Court was built. 
He w-as also the mover of the resolu 
tion, which was carried, offering the 
New England Company an annuity for 
the two hundred acres, known as Love- 
joy s Grove, for the purposes of a park 
and cemetery for the city. In politics 
he is a Liberal. In religion he is a 
P.aptist, and holds the office of deacon 
in the Park Baptist Church, Brantford. 
Dr. Stewart was married in March, 
1879, to Louisa Dimond, fourth 
daughter of Nicholas Dimond, builder 
and contractor, of Brantford. 


226 


MKN OK CAN A i&gt; A 


P. LEXXOX, St. Basil s 
Roman Catholic Church, Brant- 
&lt;- s ford, was born in 1846 in 
Armagh, Ireland. He came with his 
parents to America in 1848, and after a 
few years the family came to Canada and 
settled near Stratford, Out. After ten 
or twelve years they went to Minnesota, 
in the Western States, leaving behind 
Mr. Lennon in Canada to pursue his 
studies. He passed the entrance exami 
nation to the Stratford High School at 
eleven years of age, and for five )-ears oc 
cupied a front rank both in classics and 
mathematics. In 1864 he entered the 
Colleg. - ; . M outre-! 1 wl.. 


he took the full cor 
ot nine years in six. He 
then entered the C.nuid 
Seminary, Montreal, to ; 
pare for the priesthood by 
three years study of theo 
logy. He was ordained 
priest by Bishop Walsh. 
London, in 1873. After 
that he labored as curate in 

London, Aniherstburg and 

Stratford, and then was 
transferred to the diocese of 
Hamilton, where he became 
private secretary to Bishop 
Crinnon. He was then ap 
pointed assistant to the 
Venerable Dean O Reilly, 
of Dundas, and at the same 
time was prominent in 
founding the House of Pro 
vidence, which now occupies 
the buildings formerly held 
by the Methodist Church. 
After three years of labor in 
Dundas, Father Lennon, on 
account of his health, was 
ordered by his physician to 
visit Europe, and during 
his four months absence, 
travelled in England, Ire 
land, France, Germany and 
Italy. Returning to Canada in good 
health, he served for short periods 
in Caledonia, Walkerton and Arthur, 
and in 1882 was removed to Brant- 
ford, where he is still stationed. Here 
he has given great evidence of his 
energy and administrative talent in 
completing and reducing the debt of St. 
Basil s Church, one of the finest ecck- 
1 structures in Ontario. Father 
I.&lt; :inon is an able preacher and a dili 
gent priest, and while loyally devo; 
to his church, is on friendly terms \s-ith 
those who differ from him in religion. 
While a loyal Canadian, he is still a 
cd .son of his native country. 


OF- CANADA. 


227 


TCHAEL STEELE, M.D., Tavi- 

stock, Out., son of Thomas 
^~ and Joanna Steele, of Avon- 
bank, Perth Count}-, was born there 
on July 24th, 1861. He was educated 
at the public school near his home, the 
Collegiate Institute, St. Mary s and the 
Normal School, Toronto. After teach 
ing for a number of years in rural 
schools, he entered Trinity Medical 
College for his professional training. 
He graduated M.D., C.M., in April, 
i SSS. receiving first-class honors. In his 
boyhood he worked on his father s farm, 
as many of our prominent professional 
men have done. A few months after 


graduating, lie commenced the practice 
of his profession in Tavistock, as suc 
cessor to Dr. Rankin, where he has 
remained since. He is popular among 
all classes, and has a large and a re 
munerative business, which is rapidly 
increasing. Dr. Steele is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, and takes a 
deep interest in all departments of 
church work. He is a member and 
examining physician for several bene 
volent societies, and also medical ex 
aminer for several Life Assurance Com 
panies. Dr. Steele was married on the 
aoth of March, 1889, to Miss Annie 
Clarke. 


\li--.x OF- CANADA 


KTKR DIERLAMM, artist, of 
Stratford, Out., was born on 
the 25th of December, 1851, at 
Schoenberg, Germany, and came to 
Canada with his parents when three 
years of age. He received his educa 
tion at the public schools, and took a 
course of mental philosophy afterwards, 
and received the title of S.S.D. After 
leaving school he gave considerable 
time to self-culture. Young Dierlamm 
spent his boyhood on his father s farm, 
but very early in life he gave evidence 
of the great artistic skill which he 
has since developed to such a remark 
able degree. When a boy of seven 


he painted in water colors, and after 
wards studied in oil colors, and under 
the best artists on the continent, con 
tinued to develop and perfect himself 
in this art, for which lie lias such 
remarkable natural adaptation. 1 
nine years he conducted a photograph 
gallery in connection with an art studio, 
but abandoned it to devote him 
wholly lo portrait and landscape paint- 
in^. He settled in Stratford in I&gt; 
and has ahvadv established a provim 
reputation as an artist. H&lt;- bi-lojiys to 
the H\. angelical lion, hold 1 - 

the of:. -unlay Scl; 

superintendent, steward, etc. 


\IB.N OF- CANADA. 


229 


THOMAS RODMAN MERRITT, 

J~ St. Catharines, Out., third son of 
the late Hon. \V. H. Merritt, was born 
October ijth, 1824, at Mayville, Chan- 
tanqna Count} , U.S. He received his 
education at the Grantham Academy, 
St. Catharines, and Upper Canada Col 
lege, Toronto. After leaving college 
he entered a wholesale house in Mont 
real. In 1844 he went into business in 
St. Catharines with the late Hon. James 
R. Benson, under the title of Benson 
& Merritt. In 1846 he engaged large 
ly in milling and shipping alone, doing 
the first trade in shipping flour direct 
to the Lower Provinces in his own ves 


sels and bringing return cargoes of mo 
lasses, sugar, salt, etc. He also started 
a line of boats, in connection with his 
lake boats, between St. Catharines and 
Brantford, vid the \Yelland Canal and 
Grand River, which proved a great suc 
cess until the Great Western Railway 
was opened. He retired from business 
in 1869. Mr. Merritt was elected to 
the Dominion Parliament in 1868, and 
returned again in 1872. On the dissolu 
tion of the House by the Mackenzie 
Government, he declined the unani 
mous nomination of the Liberal-Con 
servative party to stand again. He 
was director and president of the 
Niagara District Bank until 
it amalgamated with the 
Imperial Bank of Toronto, 
since which time he has 
been vice-president of the 
Imperial Bank, was manag 
ing director of the Welland 
Railway until sold to the 
G.T.R., at which time, on 
his retirement, he was pre 
sented with a valuable ser 
vice of plate by the share 
and bondholders. He is 
president of the Security, 
Loan and Savings Co., of 
the Gas Co., of the Niagara 
Falls and Suspension Bridge 
Co., and of the Bishop 
Riddlcy College Associa 
tion. In religion he is an 
Episcopalian. Mr. Merritt 
was married in 1853 to 
Mary, eldest daughter of 
the late Thomas Benson, of 
Port Hope. His residence, 
"Rodman Hall," in St. 
Catharines is finely situated, 
standing in the midst of 
grounds beautifully laid out 
and planted with trees by 
himself over forty years 

ago. 


230 


MEN 


CANADA 


JAMKS \VALTKK I.VOX, pub 
lisher. Ciuclph, Out., was born 
at 1 niondalf, Snsqnehanna 
C&lt;&gt;nnty, Pa., I". S. A., mi April _&gt;.}, iS.jS. 
His father was Walter Lyon, and his 
mother s maiden name was Marie A. 
Giddings. He received his education 
at the district and select schools. At 
the age of nineteen he left home to 
canvass for books in Michigan, and at 
twenty-two he had made and saved ten 
thousand dollars. He was then taken 
into partnership by his employer, O. 
A. Browning, of Toledo, Ohio, and in 
1872 they opened a branch of the busi 
ness in Canada, which proved a great 
success. In 1874 he dis 
solved partnership with Mr. 
Browning and started busi 
ness for himself, under the 
name of " The World Pub 
lishing Company." The 
title represents the business, 
as it has grown to be world 
wide, and, like the British 
Empire, the sun never sets 
on their field of labor. Mr. 
Lyon has sent hundreds of 
men to such countries as 
South Africa, Hindoostan, 
West Indies, Mexico, South 
America, and has sent five 
hundred men to Australia 
alone. One local work issued 
in the latter country, en 
titled " The Picturesque 
Atlas of Australia," has 
had a sale amounting to 
r three million of dollars. 
The Oueen accepted the de 
dication of this work. Thir 
teen engravers from The 
..//trr and Jlarftcrs .}faga- 
~im- were sent to Australia 
to help prepare it. Hun 
dreds of thousands of dol 
lars were spent upon this 
publication, and a marvel 


lous work produced. Among the books 
which Mr. Lyon lias published and 
sold extensively in Canada are the 
lowing: %&gt; Kitto s History of the Bible, 1 
11 I &lt;.lar and Tropical World," by Dr. 
Hartwig, "Wood s Bible Animals; 
"Royal Path of Life," "Story of the 
Bible," Treasury of Song," Dr. Man 
ning s "Stock Doctor," "Practical 
Home Physician," etc., etc. He is at 
present very extensively engaged in 
publishing works iu Spanish, which 
find a ready sale in Mexico, Central 
America, and South America. He is a 
member of the Masonic body, and is an 
adherent of the Congregational Church. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


EV. WILLIAM GALBRAITH, 
M.A., LL.B., Ph.D., Toronto, 

&lt;^&gt; was born in the township of 
North Monaghan, three miles from 
Peterboro , on July i3th, 1842. His 
parents were both natives of Ireland. 
From his mother, a woman of great 
force of character, he has inherited the 
man\ qualities which has made him a 
power in the church. He was con 
verted at the age of eleven, and then 
united with the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church. He received his education at 
Victoria College, Cobourg, McGill Col 
lege, Montreal, and the Wesleyan 
University of Illinois, U.S. He was 
licensed as a local preacher 
at the age of seventeen, en 
tered the ministry before he 
was nineteen years old, and 
was ordained in June, 1865. 
While doing the work of a 
heavy city appointment, he 
studied law in McGill Col 
lege, and received the degree 
of B.C.L. in 1875, aud in 
1 88 1 he received the degree 
of LL.B. from Victoria Col 
lege. He took the degree 
of Ph.N. in 1887, M.A. in 
1889, and Ph.D. in 1890. 
The course prescribed for 
the latter degree covered 36 
different subjects and over 
17,000 pages, and in addi 
tion two thesis. Mr. Gal- 
braith has been delegate at 
five General Conferences, 
chairman of a district for 
eight years, was the last 
president of the Montreal 
Conference of the Methodist 
Church of Canada, and the 
first president of the Mont 
real Conference of the 
Methodist Church after the 
union in 1884. In addition 
to his pulpit duties, lie takes 


a deep interest in the educational work 
of the church, and has given substan 
tial support to its various colleges. 
Dr. Galbraith is a popular preacher. 
His sermons are convincing, generally 
brilliant, and, when he is enthused, are 
eloquent and powerful. As a man he 
is genial, humble and sympathetic, 
which well known qualities of heart 
have had much to do with his wonder 
ful success in pastoral work. He has 
been twice married. His first wife was 
Hattie Howell, the only child of Isaac 
Reid Howell, of Jerseyville ; his second 
wife is Kate, daughter of John Breden, 
of Kingston, Out. 


Ml \ &lt; .1 U \N A I &gt;.\ 


\\ ^ILLIAM BfCK was born ,. n 
&gt; * tlu- 2_ iul of August, iS_\x, ;it 
Aueaster, &lt; )ntario, and was married to 
Alice Foster on the ist of October, 
1X50. His grandfather was a U. I- .. 
Loyalist. In 1X34 Mr Buck moved to 
aitford and learned the business 
which has now, under his enterprise 
and perseverance, assumed such large 
proportions. Working as a journey 
man for a time, he saved about one 
thousand dollars, and at the age of 
twenty-four he started a tin and stove 
business, which, in 1858, was merged 
into the foundry business, until now 
his stoves and furnaces ire well known 


. , 


in every part of the 1 )oininion of Canada. 
Mr. Buck is an earnest Baptist, and 
nienil" the I ark Church. Brant 

ford. In 1X56 he united with the 
iiitford Baptist Church, then under 
the pastorate of the Re\d. T. I. 
Davidson, D.D., minister of the only 
;&gt;tist Church then in Brantford. At 
the Baptist Convention, held in St. 
Catharines in 1888, he was appointed 
one of the governors of McMaster 
University. He has for many years 
been a director of the Brantford Young 
Ladies College, and also vice-president 
of the Board. Some years ago he 
was appointed treasurer of the Baptist 
Church Edifice Society for 
Ontario and Quebec. He 
has been one of the direc 
tors of the Royal Loan 
Society from the beginning, 
and has also occupied the 
position of president of the 
Board of Trade. He was 
on the committee of the 
Brant Memorial, now erect 
ed in Victoria Square in 
the city of Brantford. The 
foundry business of Mr. 
Buck is now one of the 
largest establishments in 
Brantford, employing many 
workmen, and with every 
prospect of extension in the 
years to come, as the ] 
ducts of his establishment 
have already acquired a na 
tional reputation. A man 
of strict honor and integrity, 
possessing the confident 
the entire community, and 
ot all who come in contact 
with him. either in busiu 
affairs or in matters pertain 
ing to the church or the 
state. Such men add greatly 
to the moral and bnsir. 
worth of anv community. 


CANADA. 


233 


/CHARLES JOSEPH 
(" WILLIAMS, Hamil- 
^w-~-^&gt; ton, Out., was 
born in that city on the 
24th of June, 1843. He is 
the eldest son of J. M. 
Williams, Esq., Registrar 
of the city of Hamilton, 
who was also elected the 
first Reform member for the 
city at the time of Con 
federation. Mr. Williams 
began his education at the 
private academy conducted 
by the well known Dr. Wm. 
Tassie, who afterwards went 
to Gait. From Dr. Tassie s 
academy he went to the 
Osborne school, and then 
finished his education at the 
Central school at the age of 
eighteen. After leaving 
school he spent two years 
as bookkeeper in his father s 
office, and then went to the 
United States for three 
years, where he gained ex 
perience in mercantile life, 
and held prominent posi 
tions in Warsaw, New York, 
and Chicago. He then re 
turned to Canada, and was 
taken into partnership with the Cana 
dian Oil Company, his father having 
the chief interest in the same, and who 
is known as the discoverer of Petroleum 
oil in Canada, and the first to ship and 
manufacture the article in this country. 
The name of Mr. J. M. Williams can 
IK- found in the Geological Department 
at Washington as the discoverer of 
Crude Petroleum, the first consignment 
having been made to a business firm in 
New York city. The Canadian Oil 
Company has medals that no other 
company in this country have received 
for making the best illuminating and 
lubricating oils. During an experience 


of thirty-five years, not a single acci 
dent has occurred where " Williams 1 
Safe Oil" has been used, a fact that 
speaks volumes for the puritv of the 
quality. Mr. Williams is in religion a 
Presbyterian, and has been manager 
and treasurer of Knox Church, the 
oldest in the city, for three years. He 
is now a member and trustee of MeXab 
Street Presbyterian Church. He is 
not a member of any of the many 
excellent societies, preferring the con 
genial society of home. He was mar 
ried on the .jotli of September, 1871, 
to .Sarah I,., only daughter of J. C. 
Prout, Troy. N.Y. 


\II:N i &gt;K CANADA. 


if ON. JAMKS ROBT. GOWAN, 
Trl ^LL.D.. g.C., Senator, Barrie, 
^^ Out., was born on the 3rd of 
December, 1817, in Ireland. He re 
ceived his early education in Ireland 
and finished in Canada, whither his 
parents had emigrated in 1832. Upon 
the completion of his education, he 
entered upon the study of law with the 
Hun. James E. Small, Toronto. He 
was called to the Bar in 1X39. and then 
entered into partnership with Mr. 
Small. ] ; &lt;&gt;ur years later lie was ap 
pointed Jwl.ye of the judicial district of 
Simcoe, the largest in rpfx/r Canada. 
He had many hardships and dangers 


to contend with in his 
pioneer work. In ]Si; 
Judge Gowan was appointed 
one of the three judges 
necessary under " the Art 
tor assimilating the Cana 
dian law of prolate and 
administration to that of 
England." He assisted in 
the consolidation of the 
Statutes of Canada in 1858 
and 1859, in the consolida 
tion of the Criminal Law 
in 1869, and in 1876 in the 
consolidation of the Statute 
Law of Ontario. In 1871 
he was appointed, with four 
other gentlemen, a commis 
sion to inquire into the 
constitution and jurisdiction 
of the several Courts of 
Law and Equity. In 1873 
he was one of the judges 
appointed on the Royal 
Commission in the well- 
known matter of " The 
Canadian Pacific Railway 
Scandal." Senator Gowan 
retired from the Bench in 
1883, having occupied the 
judicial office over fortv 
years. In 1885 he was ap 
pointed by the Crown a Senator, Sir 
John Macdonald being complimented 
upon his choice by the press of the 
country. Purity of purpose, entire 
freedom from undue influence, and 
an earnest desire to do justice, have 
characterized him as Judge and Senator 
during the whole of his long career. 
IK- has been a conspicuous woi i 
in the cause of education since iS.j ; v 
and tor many years has been chair- 
the Barrie Collegiate In- 
SenatOT (iowau was married 
. to Anna, daughter ol 
- !!. Ardagli. A.M . 


man of 
stitnte. 
in July, 
the late 


rector of I .arrie. 


MEN 


CANAUA. 


235 


EBENEZER WILKIE 
PANTON, Stratford, Out., was 
^_ born July i5th, 1842, at 
Cupar-of-Fife, Scotland. His education 
was commenced at the public schools 
of Toronto, and continued at Whitby 
and Oshawa High Schools, Toronto 
Cniversity, and Knox College. He 
graduated from Knox College in 1X73. 
Previous to this he taught school for 
seven years. In 1X73 he was licensed 
by the Presbytery of ( hitario to preach, 
and the same year was ordained and 
inducted into Peel Street Church, 
Lindsay. In 1875,011 the union of the 
Presbyterian churches, he (with Rev. 


J. A. Murray, of the old Kirk Church, i 
resigned his charge, in order to bring 
about practical union in that town. In 
1X76 he received a call to Bradford, 
which he accepted, remaining there 
nearly seven years. In iSS^ he ac 
cepted a call to St. Andrew s Church, 
Stratford, where he has since remained, 
and, under his pastorate, the congrega 
tion has greatly increased, and the 
membership of the church almost 
doubled. Mr. Panton is treasurer of 
the Stratford Presbytery, president of 
the Bible Society, also president of the 
Mechanics Institute. He married 
Helen K. White, of ( )sha\va. 


MI-IN OF CANADA. 


*V. VMUEL KRUPP, Pastor 
of Evangelical Association 
Church, Tavistock, Out., was 
born August i5th, 1832, in \Yilinot 
township, \\ aterloo County. He was 
educated at the public school, and ob 
tained a second-class certificate, on 
which he taught six years. He was 
converted in 1853 and the church re- 
his gifts, called him to its 
ministry in 1857. In iS&gt;(; IK- was or 
dained deacon by Hishop I v &lt;ni^. and in 
I.S M was ordained elder. After ordina 
tion lie travelled the following circuits : 
I [amburg, Waterloo, Huffalo, Hamilton. 
Il.iy, Colbonic, Cani]&gt;dcn and York, 


After this, for three years, he was P. 
Klder of South District, but owing to 
ill-health, had to resign this and go back 
to the pastorate. He then served Un 
church at Plattsville, Carrick, Colborne. 
Niagara. Mildmay, Hamilton again, and 
Tavistock, his present charge. I Ie was 
tivasnrcr of Conference for a number of 
years, also treasurer of Missions. Tin- 
churches at Mildmay, Carrick and 
Niagara were Iniilt under liis adminis 
tration. He is a faithful pastor, and 
tin- work of tin- church is prosperous 
under him. He was married ( )ctober 

i.s^.j, to Miss hfagdalena Wegen 

of Berlin, Out. 


MEN OF* 


JOHN JOSEPH VICKERS, 
Toronto, late proprietor of 
" Vickers Express," and pre 
sident of the Vickers Express Com 
pany (Limited), was born in Dublin, 
Ireland, in 1818. His father held a 
government position in the treasury 
department in Dublin for many years. 
Mr. Vickers received his education in 
Dublin, and, when a young man, en 
tered the service of the City of Dublin 
Steam Packet Company, where he re 
mained several years. He sailed to 
America in 1849 an d entered the ser 
vice of the Howard Steamship Company 
in New York city, where he remained 
for two years. Having 
heard of the splendid agri 
cultural prospects of Canada, 
he determined to try farm 
ing, and accordingly moved 
to the Bay of Cjninte dis 
trict, and settled on a farm 
in Prince Edward County, 
Ontario, but after following 
the pursuit for one year, he 
abandoned it and moved to 
Toronto, and in 1852 en 
gaged with the American 
Express Company, with 
whom he remained two 
years. In 1854 the Northern 
Railway of Canada was 
opened for traffic, and Air. 
Vickers embarked in the 
express business on his own 
account, continuing until 
1888, when he sold the busi 
ness to the American Ex 
press Co. Since his settle 
ment in Toronto, he has 
taken an active interest in 
all that concerns the city s 
welfare. He was elected 
alderman in 1864 and re 
mained in the council until 
[870. In 1858 he visited 
the Lake Superior district 


in the first steamer to Thunder Bay, 
and believing that the Kaministiqu ia 
River would, in the future, be a great 
harbor, he purchased a large portion of 
the river frontage, and owing to the 
extension of the Canadian Pacific Rail 
way, which now runs through the 
greater portion of it, he has a very 
valuable franchise. Mr. Vickers is 
captain in the Sedentary militia. In 
politics he is a Conservative. He was 
married in 1865 to Catherine Mary, 
eldest daughter of the late John W. 
Dunbar Moodie, the first sheriff of the 
County of Hastings, her mother being 
Susanna Moodie, the eminent authoress. 


MEN 


XY 5 ! 


x LLIAM PATKRSOX, M.P. 
tor South Hraiit, Brantford, 
Out., was born in Hamilton on the 
igth of Si.-pU-inlx.-r, i-S;,o. He is the 
soil of James and Martha Paterson, 
who came to Canada from Aberdeen, 
Scotland. His parents died in is 
after which he was adopted by tlie Rev. 
Dr. Ferrier, of Caledonia, an old friend 
of his parents, with whom he lived 
until nearly fifteen years of age. He 
received his education at the schools of 
Hamilton and Caledonia, and his studies 
embraced, besides the ordinary branches, 
English, French, Latin and general 
classics. He then entered the estab- 


k.*3\ 


lislinic-nt of Ignatius Cockshntt. Uratit- 
iord, where he remained nine years, 
leaving it to enter business for himself 
in iS Vv when lie formed a partnership 
with fl. B. Li-eming. and began tlie 
manufacture of biscuits and con: 
tionery. Mr. Li-eming retired in 1X70, 
leaving Mr. Paterson sole proprietor. 
The business is now one of the most 
thriving industries in the Dominion. 
Mr. Paterson has led a bus}- public life. 
He was deputy reeve of Brantford from 
1869 to 1871, mayor of Brantford in 
1872, elected member of the House of 
Commons for South Brant in 1872, and 
again in 1874, in 1878, in 1882, in 1887, 
and in 1891. Mr. Paterson 
is a recognized champion of 
the Reform party. His de 
bating ability is of the very 
highest order, and he has 
few equals in the House 
of Commons as an eloquent, 
pith}-, and telling speaker. 
Although he can be, and 
often is, severe in his criti 
cism of opponents, there is 
no malice in his utterances. 
The result is that, although 
no other member of the Op 
position has more frequent 
ly, or more effectively as 
sailed, the Government of 
Sir John Macdonald, he has 
the good will of all parties 
in the House, Conservatives 
and Liberals alike. In re 
ligion Mr. Paterson is a 
member of the Farringdoii 
Independent Church, and 
one of the most popular 
preachers of that body, but 
his parents were strict 
Presbyterians. I K- was mar 
ried on the loth of Septein- 
IM.T, 1X63, to Lucy Clive. 
daughter of T. C. I &gt;a\ 
of Brantford township. 


MKN OF* CANADA. 


239 


\ 


JOHN P. GERRIF, B.A., 
Stratford, Out., was born on 
_;&gt; December i2th, 1860, in Gara 
fraxa, Wellington County. He was edu 
cated at the public school, Fergus High 
School, and Mount Forest Model School. 
In 1879 he joined the Congregational 
Church at Garafraxa on profession of 
faith, but previous to this felt called 
to the ministry. He entered McGill 
University, Montreal, 1883, and gra 
duated in 1887. He also took a three 
years course in theology at the Congre 
gational College of Canada, taking the 
Robert Anderson Scholarship each year, 
and the Calvary Church Medal at 


the completion of his course. During 
the vacation of 1887 Mr. Gerrie was 
selected to visit the churches of Ontario 
and Quebec and to present to them the 
interests of the college. He received 
several calls and accepted one from the 
Congregational Church, Stratford, and 
was ordained in 1888. Although this 
was then a mission, yet, after the first 
year, it became self-supporting, and the 
membership is steadily increasing, as 
are its spiritual and material in 
terests. Mr. Gerrie is secretary of the 
Western Congregational Association, 
Out., and statistical secretary for the 
Union of Ontario and Quebec. 


240 


MEN OP CANADA. 


J&lt; &gt;HX HALUDAY KLUOTT, 
Chesley, Out., was born on 
the 25th of January, 1836, at 
Smith s Falls. He is a son of Adam 
Scott Klliott and Jeanette Halliday 
Elliott. He- was educated at the public 
and High schools of Perth. In i 
he nio\ed to Chesley, where he has 
remained since. He first engaged in 
the milling business and afterwards in 
general business. Ik- is a pior. 
settler, being the second person to li 
in the place. He surveyed it, laid it 
out, and sold the lots, so that lie may 
be truly said to !&gt;e the father of Ches!- 
II-- has been very successful in busi 


ness and has accumulated considerable 
means. lie was a member of Council 
for the township of Klderslie for a 
number of years before Chesley was 
incorporated^ and reeve of the town 
years. He owns a private bank in 
Cliesley, and is still active in busin. 
He has never failed to retain the 
esteem of the people by whom he lias 
been so long and favorably known. 
Mr. Klliott was married June i"th, 

v to Mary, daiight. 
Colville, of the township of Holland. 
Hi- ia a nicmU-r of the Associal 
form I 1 -iaii Church, and is t: 

r OI tll s i UK 


MKX 


CANADA. 


241 


JOHN I,EE 


J 


OHN LEE, Highgate, Ontario, was born 
on March 5th, 1845, in Orford town 
ship, Kent County, Ont. He is the 
only son of John Lee, who came to Canada from 
Ireland in 1843. He was educated in the district 
school of the township of Orford, and has de 
voted his life to agricultural pursuits, and is still 
living on the farm on which he was born. He- 
was married in December, 1865, to Rebecca 
Attridge, of the County of Kent. He was town 
ship councillor of Orford for two years i.Sfx; 
and 1870, deputy reeve in 1872, reeve from 1873 
to 1878, and in 1875 was elected warden of Kent 
County, the youngest person whohas ever occupied 
the chair. He has been Justice of the Peace 
since [873, and is associated with the Huron & 
Krie Loan & Savings Co. His present honorable 
position is due to his energy and strength of 
character. He is a pronounced Reformer, and 
has declined to be nominated for parliamentary 
honors, hut while studiously avoiding publicity 
on all occasions, he has never refused to accept 
positions of trust when the welfare of the coin 
munity required his services. In religion Mr. 
Lee is a member of the Methodist Church. 


VX/ILLIAM THOMSON, lumber merchant, 
\ \ Orillia, Ont., was born in Peterboro 
on the i4th of March, 1860. At sixteen he 
entered the office of his father, and on his death 
in 1 88 1, at the age of 21 he became president 
and general manager of The Longford Lumber 
Company," which manufactures all kinds of 
lumber and woodemvare. The Longford mills 
at Longford and woodenware factory at Orillia 
employ about three hundred and fifty men. In 
1886 Mr. Thomson bought the stock of "The 
Rama Timber Transport Company," formed for 
the carrying of saw-logs and timber from the 
Black River to Lake St. John, and then over 
a portage to Lake Couchiching, whence the logs 
are towed to different mills, giving employment 
to seventy-five men during the summer months. 
He was educated at Orillia High School and 
Toronto Collegiate Institute. He is a member of 
Orillia Presbyterian Church and on the Board 
of Management. He was married in 1888 to 
Miss Eva Haw, of Port Hope. Mr. Thomson s 
success is the result of his special adap 
tation to the requirements of a large 
business. 


\VII.I.IAM THOMSON. 


MKN OF 


=^&lt;TNKv. JOHX MCINTOSH CAMKKN 

\\ -. tcrian Church, Toronto 

\^ was born in Strathmorc, Perthshire, 
Hi !. He n-ceivcd his preliminary education 
in Uairgowrie, Scotland, and was afterwards for 
a time in the Royal Engineers and Ordnance 
Survey, Scotland. He came to Canada in 
and was bookkeeper for two years for a firm in 
Hamilton. He then took a course at the Normal 
School, Toronto, and afterwards taught for .seven 
years. After this he entered Toronto University 
and studied theology in the United Presbyterian 
Hall under Professor Taylor, and afterwards 
finished his course in theology in Knox College. 
He was ordained to the ministry of the Presby 
terian Church in 1871, and has remained pastor 
of the same congregation for over twenty-one 
years. Mr. Cameron is an able pulpit preacher 
and a diligent pastor. He filled for sixteen years 
the position of secretary to the Upper Canada 
Bible Society, and was for some years secretary 
of the Foreign Mission committee of the Presby 
terian Church. He was married October 
lyth, 1861, to Miss J. Ewart, daughter of 
Roliert Ewart, of Edinburgh, Scotland. 


\VII.I.I \M I. I U AN. 


LI AM B. COWAN. M !&gt;.. too 
pathie physician. C.nelpli, Out., \\.is 
born on the 131)1 of March, 1^40, at North 
Dumfries township, County of Waterloo. Hi 
was educated at the public schools, ami at the 
Gait Grammar School, and afterwards U-gan the 
study of medicine under Dr. Husband, of ( 
now of Hamilton. In 1863 he entered the 
Homeopathic College, New York, and graduated 
in 1866. Returning t. used 

by the Royal College of Physic ians and Sin . 
of Ontario, and began the ; &gt;( his pi 

MOII in Stratford. He then removed to Guelph. 
where he has practiced for twenty -fi\ I i . 

:i has been m- -sful in his profession. 

and has jiateiited several medical and ni 
contrivances, by which lie is widely known in 
Ontario. He is an ehi- -t. Ami: 

Presbyterian Church, a memU-r of the Hoard of 
Management, and deeply interested in the deno 
mination. He is a ineinU-r of t! \V., 

C.O.1 Knights, and other organuations. 

In politics lie is a LiU-ral Hi \vas married on 


William Simp ph. 


MKX or- CANADA. 


243 


UCHARD BROWN, of the well- 
known firm cf Brown Brothers, 
stationers and bookbinders, 
Toronto, Out., was born at Newcastle- 
on-Tyne, Eng., May i3th, 1834. He 
and his brothers were the third genera 
tion following this branch of business, 
as their father and grandfather were 
engaged in the same trade in the old 
land. Mr. Brown was educated at the 
Royal Grammar School at his birth 
place as above, and came with his 
parents to Toronto early in the year 
1846, where Mr. Brown s father com 
menced business as bookseller and book 
binder. Shortly after his son Richard 


entered upon his apprenticeship, and 
served eight years at the same trade 
with the house of Thomas Maclear. 
Early in 1856 Richard formed a part 
nership with his brothers, Thomas and 
John, and commenced doing business as 
stationers, account book manufacturers 
and bookbinders, under the name of 
Brown Bros. Owing to their energy 
and perseverance they soon took a lead 
ing position in the trade, from which 
they have never receeded, as their busi 
ness will now compare favorabh with 
any in the Dominion. For over a 
quarter of a century, in addition to 
their other business, they have been 
the publishers of the Cana 
dian Pocket and Office 
diaries, and extensive manu 
facturers of fancy leather 
goods. Richard Brown is 
now the sole surviving 
member of the firm, Thomas 
having died in 1867, and 
John in 1882. Mr. Brown 
is in religion a Methodist, 
and has been a member of 
that denomination for nearly 
40 years, and is now con 
nected with Sherbourne 
Street Church. He has 
held all the important posi 
tions in the church, from 
steward to superintendent 
of the Sabbath School He 
was married March ajth, 
i86i,to Elizabeth, daughter 
of Dr. Slade Robinson, who 
came from England to this 
country in 1831. Mr. 
Brown s life contains an in 
spiration, for it is readily 
seen that his present promi 
nent position in business is 
due to the industry, push 
and honesty of purpose that 
have marked his long and 
successful business career. 


MI-:N -i CANAJ &gt;.\. 


11. T. CROSSLEY, Evan- 
, Canadian of English 
js and Irish descent. He was 
born in the County of York, Out., on 
November igth, iS^o. His boyhood 
was spent on a farm. At the age of 
nineteen he received a first-class pro 
vincial certificate from the Toronto 
Normal School, after which he taught 
school at Cnlloden for four years. He 
continued his education some years 
later at Yictoria University, preparing 
for his life work. Mr. Crossley was 
religiously inclined from a child, and, 
at the age of seventeen, was converted 
and joined the Methodist Church. 
When twenty-three years of 
age he entered the ministry 
and spent ten years in the 
regular work of the church 
as pastor. During his pas 
torate he saw the fruits of 
his labor, many being con 
verted, not only on his own 
circuits, but on other charges 
where he was invited to help 
his brethren. In 1884, by 
consent of his Conference, 
he began the work of an 
Evangelist, and from that 
time until now he and his 
co-laborer, Rev. John E. 
Hunter, have been engaged 
in union revival services 
with the various evangelical 
churches in the leading 
towns and cities, from Mont 
real, Kingston and Ottawa 
in the East, to Winnipeg. 
Vancouver, and Portland. 

on. in the West. He 

.ilways addressed large 
audiences, and many thou 
sands have been addid to 
the different chuivh- 

nh of tlie-e meetings 
Mr. Crossley has special 
qualifications for this 


work. First, he has a broad catholic 
spirit and large sympathy. Second, as 
a preacher, he is clear, logical, pointed 
and convincing. His language is plain 
Anglo-Saxon and free from cant, 
slang or coarseness. His sermon on 
" Mysteries" has led many sceptics to 
become Christians. Third, he sin^s 
from the heart to the heart. His voice 
is a well-trained baritone, and pos 
sesses great clearness, sweetness and 
pathos. Every word is distinctly 
uttered. Fourth, he has strong confi 
dence in God to bless His own word, 
when faithfully presented, and to crown 
personal effort with success. 


MEN OK CAXAIJA. 


245 


)EV. JOHN E. HUNTER, the 
well-known Evangelist, was 
^s-. born in Durham Conntv, 
Out., July 29th, 1856. His boyhood 
days were spent on a farm, where he 
acquired the physical vigor necessary 
for the arduous labors of an evangelist. 
He was brought up a Presbyterian, but 
at the age of fifteen was converted in a 
Methodist revival, and four years later 
was called, like EHsha of old, from the 
plough to the pulpit. His circuits be 
came the centres of extensive revivals, 
and also mail}- other fields where he 
assisted in special services. During 
his probation, Mr. Hunter spent two 
years at Victoria College, 
and shortly after his ordina 
tion, on the 1 2th of July, 
1882, was married to Miss 
Jennie Jones, of Essex. He 
was then, by his own re 
quest, transferred to the 
Manitoba Conference, where 
he continued in the pastorate 
until, the conviction of his 
call to evangelistic work be 
coming more intense, he, in 
July, 1884, joined Mr. Cross- 
ley, and the two went 
forth, like flaming evangels, 
through the principal towns 
and cities of the Dominion, 
gathering thousands in to the 
churches. London, Strat 
ford, Belleville, Ottawa, 
Toronto, Brant ford, Mont 
real. St. Thomas, Winnipeg, 
Detroit, Portland, and the 
cities of the Pacific Coast 
have shanxl in the harvest 
of blessings. Mr. Httnter 
is of Irish descent, and pos 
sesses all that keenness of 
perception, nervous sensi 
bility and tendency to wit, 

so characteristic of "the Irish 
people. He is also endowed 


with much of that peculiar force called 
magnetism, which attracts and holds 
attention and constitutes its possessor 
a leader of men. He is a man of 
power in the pulpit, his Bible readings 
are intensely practical and interesting, 
and his exhortations, in their melting 
pathos and impassioned appeal, are 
unique and full of persuasive power. 
He shows marvellous tact in managing 
a revival meeting, no general on the 
field of battle having more perfect con 
trol of his forces. God has richly en 
dowed him for this special work. His 
home is No. 113 Wellington street, St. 
Thomas. 


-4" 


\II.N OF CAJMAI &gt;.\. 


IKY. ISAAC TOYKI.L. pastor of 
Gore Street Methodist Church, 
* Hamilton, was born in Kra- 
niosa township, Wellington County, 
( hit., on the 8th of November, 1845. 
He received his education at the public 
school of his native township, at Rock- 
wood Academy, and at Victoria Univer- 
sit} , Cobourg. In 1866 he obtained a 
first-class teacher s certificate, on which 
he taught for two years. He was con 
verted and joined the church in 1866 
while engaged in teaching. Within 
three weeks the church, recognizing his 
gifts, gave him license to exhort, and 
this was followed in three months with 


a local preacher s license. I Ic llu-n j.iim-d 
tlu- Wesley an Methodist Conference ou 
probation. After joining the Con: 
ence he preached tor three years mi the 
following circuits: Millhank, Merlin, 
and Georgetown, then attended Victoria 
University for two years. In iS;;^ he 
was ordained and appointed to the 
charge of Sherbonrne Street Methodist 
Church, Toronto, which was then affili 
ated with Elm Street Church. Mr. 
Tovell has served the following charges 
in their order : Millbank, Berlin, George 
town, and in Toronto, Sherbonrne 
Street, Wesley, Richmond and Berkley 
Street churches, and in Peterborough, 
George Street and Char- 

lotte vStreet churches. From 

the latter place he went 
to the First Methodist 
Church, St. Catharines, 
and from there to Gore 
Street Church, Hamilton. 
He is a most pleasing and 
forcible speaker, and when 
roused completely, captures 
his hearers by his remark 
able eloquence. He has 
held several denominational 
offices, such as chairman of 
District, secretary of Con 
ference, member of Board of 
Examiners, and member of 
the Senate of the Wesleyan 
Theological College, Mont 
real. He was elected dele 
gate to the General Confer- 
encein i886and 1890. While 
a resident of Toronto, IK 
was appointed by the Citv 
Council for ten years in suc 
cession on the Board of i 
amim-rs of the city schools. 
Mr. To\ell was married on 
the 2&lt;&gt;th May, 1874, to Miss 
Knima Watkins, of Hamil 
ton, a graduate of the \\ 
levan Ladies Coll- 


MI:N OF CAXADA. 


Y. FRANCIS WM. SANDYS, 
D.D., Archdeacon of Huron, 
Chatham, Out., was born at 
Ballymahon, County of Langford, Ire- 
laud, in the year 1815. His father, 
Captain Sandys, was wounded during 
an engagement and died when Francis 
was an infant. His mother s maiden 
name was Grace Russell. The subject 
of our sketch received his education in 
Dublin, Ireland, under Sidney Smith, 
late Fellow of Trinity College, and 
professor of Biblical Greek in the same. 
Dr. Sandys was ordained in the year 
iS)5, and in the same year came to 
Canada and settled at Chatham, where 


he has continuously resided for forty- 
six years. Although now in his 771)1 
year, the doctor still holds the position 
of Rector and Archdeacon of Huron, 
and lives in the affection of his people, 
and it was through his instrumentality 
that Christ Church was built in Chatham. 
Dr. Sandys was married November 16, 
1862, to Miss E. A. B. Moeran, daughter 
of Kdward and Margaret Moeran, of 
Cork County, Ireland. The doctor has 
three sons and three daughters, namely, 
( .race, Francis Edward, Lucy, Fanny, 
Edwin and Benjamin. His eldest son 
holds a high position on the Canadian 
Pacific Railway. 


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Ml \ 01 CAJtAl &gt;.\. 


~^T) Y -^ ^" M - ED. GRAHAME, 

I\ Oakville, Out., youngest son of 

V^s- the late John Grahame, of II.M. 

Customs, Seaham, Durham, Eng., was 

born June zoth, 1841, at East Hartle- 
pool, Eng. His early education was 
received from tutors in England. After 
coming to Canada he followed the teach 
ing profession in the Barrie High 
School and "Weston. On leaving the 
latter place he matriculated in Trinitv 
College, where he took a theological 
conr.se only, on account of ill-health. 
Mr. (irahame was first appointed to 
the church in the townslii: ; [rill 

and (iarafraxa. \\ ellington County, 


and afterwards to the church at Harri- 
ston, Clifford and Drew. He was ap 
pointed rector at Thorold June ist, 
1880, and resigned December, 1886, his 
health having failed, and he is now on 
sick leave at Oakville. He was a mem 
ber of the Committee of Disciples of the 
Clergv, but the personnel of this com 
mittee has been entirely changed by 
the prc-eiif bishop, Rev. Dr. Hamilton, 
only the clerg\ in work now 

being eligible for the position. Mr. 
. liame was married February i&lt;th, 
iS^S, to Henrietta I ir 
daughter of Hc\. Dr. Caswell.of Salis 
bury Cathedral. England. 


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&gt;j\HARLES FREDERICK WAGNER, 
1 architect. Toronto, was horn June 28, 

Vte-~-^&gt; 1862, in that city. He is of Ger 
man descent, his parents being- natives of 
Germany, who came to America in the year 
1838. He received his education at the public- 
schools and Upper Canada College, Toronto. 
His father being a builder, the subject of our 
sketch, considering it quite a necessary adjunct 
to be practical, became apprenticed to him, 
and spent some time at carpenter work. In 
the year 1883 he began the study of architec 
ture in the office of Messrs. Gordon & Helli- 
\v-ll, Toronto. In 1887 he opened an office on 
his own account at 4 King street East, but 
business having increased he was compelled to 
remove to l:irger premises. Mr. Wagner was 
a member of the German Lutheran Church, 
but since being married, his wife not under 
standing the German language, has joined tin 
Church of England. He is also a member of 
the ( &gt;nt;ui&lt;&gt; Association of Architects. He was 
married in September. iSSS, to Miss Lucy, only 
daughter of Major James Bennett, of the Inland 
Revenue Department, Toronto. 


^|% /T ALCOLM STALKER, M.I)., Walker 

JL&gt; I ton, Out., was born in Clark town- 
V^- ship, Durham County, -September 
3rd, 1854. His parents came to Canada from 
Scotland in 1832 and settled in Toronto. He 
ived his education at the public schools of 
Durham County and at Newcastle Grammar 
School. In 1874 he entered Trinity College 
and graduated from the University of Toronto 
and the University of Trinity College ill 1878. 
In 1879 he began to practice in Newcastle. 
He afterwards removed to Ripley, where he 
acquired a large practice, and removed in 
1883 to Walkerton. Here he enjoys a profit 
able and increasing practice, and realizing the 
necessity for some public improvements, notably 
waterworks, he resigned this position to take a 
seat at the Council Board of January, iSo, and 
was re-elected in 1891. From 18X410 1X89 he 
was Medieal I lealth ( &gt;fticer for Walkerton. Dr. 
Stalker was married in iXSo to Marguerite 
Anna, daughter of J. E. Berkeley Smith, 
bursar of Toronto University and Colleges. 
In religion lie is a Presbyterian, and in politics 
a Conservative. 


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EV. THOMAS McKEE. Barrie, Out . 
-, born February 6th, 1831, in 
&gt;^ Monaghan, Ireland. He is the son 
of Heiiry~McKee, of the County of Monaghan, 
Ireland. He was educated at the public 
schools and private academy of his native 
place, and in the Normal School, Toronto, 
Knox College, and the University, Toronto, 
and afterwards studied medicine at Queen s 
College, Kingston. Mr. McKee, after coining 
to Canada, taught school for eighteen years, 
after which he ceased teaching and turned 
his attention to preparing for the ministry. 
In 1871 he was ordained a minister of the 
Presbyterian Church in Canada, and became 
pastor of the church at Essa, succeeding the 
Rev. Dr. Fraser, who is so well known as one 
the clerks of the General Assembly for 
many years. In 1 88 1 he was appointed In- 
sj&gt;ei tor of Schools for South Simcoe, and still 
peaches m &lt;. aMoiially at mission stations in 
the Presbytery and elsewhere as his services 
are required. Mr. McKee was married in 
- .h Gait, daughter of the late James 
!. of Brockvillc, Out. 


EV. JOSEPH FENNELL, George 
town, Ont., was born March i6th, 
_ 1835, at Cobourg. His parents 
were SimTon and Martha McCamus Fennell, of 
Ireland. He received his education at the 
Cobourg public school and Victoria College. 
He then began his theological studies in 
Trinity University, Toronto. He was ordained 
deacon in October, 1873, and was ordained 
priest in 1875. He then became a missionary 
at Grantham, Queenston and Virgil, remain 
ing in the former field for fourteen years, and 
the two latter for four years. During these 
four years he built the Brock Memorial Church 
at Queenston. He also ministered for ten 
years to the churches of Homer and Merritton 
while in connection with Grantham. In i 
he removed to Georgetown, where he became 
incumbent of St. George s Church, hi 
charge. Mr. Fennell is an old mcin1&gt;er of the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was 
twice married first in 1*74 to Maltha M. 
Cunningham, who died in 1*77. and again in 
i to Eli/uU-th Charlotte Jacks.,n, of Berlin, 
lormeih of Stratford. 


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251 


REDERICK KILLMER, D.D.S., 
D.vS., St. Catharines, Out., was 
born at Malahide, Elgin Count}-, 
on the 24th of September, 1852. He 
commenced his education at the 
Komoka Seminary, then attended the 
. \\liner High School, and afterwards 
the Xormal School, Toronto, where he 
obtained a second class " A " certificate. 
He taught school from 1X77 to iSSi at 
Frome and Shcdclen, Elgin County, 
and then entered a dental office as 
student, where he remained three years, 
during which lime he took regular 
course s in the Toronto School of Den 
tistry. He graduated in i&lt;SS.| as (iold 


Medalist, and took the degree of D.D.S. 
in Toronto in 1889. He began his 
profession in St. Catharines iu iSS.j, 
and has been eminently successful in 
business. While attending to all 
branches of dentistry, he makes a 
specialty of operative. He is a mem 
ber of St. Paul Street Methodist 
Church, a member of the Quarterly 
lioard, and also trustee. In politics he 
is Reform. He is a member of the 
Masonic I ody, also of the I.O.O.E., 
and other societies. He was married 
November 27th, 1877, to Mary, eldest 
daughter of the late William Harvey, 
M.I , for East Elgin. 


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-^TXAVID ROBB, Inspector of 
J Public Schools for Kast Huron, 
Clinton, Out., was boni on the 
23rd of December, 1847, in the County 
Armagh, Ireland. He received his 
education at the Kingston public 
schools, at the Normal School, Toronto, 
but chiefly in private study. He com 
menced teaching on a County Board 
certificate, but, in 1871, when the 
Scholar Law was amended, he obtained 
cond-class certificate, and afterwards, 
in iSSi, a first-class one. He taught 
school twenty-four years, during nine 
of which lie was mathematical master 
of the Clinton Collegiate Institute. 


which position he filled to the greatest 
possible advantage of the pupils, and 
with satisfaction to all concerned. In 
1890 he was appointed to his present 
position as Public School Inspector. 
In the various educational appointments 
he has held, he has proved himself a 
thorough scholar, and he is now a 
popular and efficient inspector. Mr. 
Robb i* a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. In politic* he i&gt; a Reformer, 
and is a member of the \ 1 ; . &lt;S: A.M. 
Lod-e No. 84, Clinton He uas mar 
ried on the ^7th of Ik-ecnibcr, iSSi. to 
Mis* Annie Parker, of Hast \Vawauosh, 
Countv of Huron. 


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REDBRICK JAS. RASTRICK, 
Architect and Civil Engineer, 
Hamilton, Out., third son of 
John Urpeth Rastrick, F.R.S. and 
M.S.C.E., Sayes Court, Surrey, Eng., 
was born at Westbroni witch, Stafford 
shire. He received his education in 
Yorkshire and London, then entered 
his father s office to study civil engi 
neering, and afterwards was articled to 
Sir Charles Barry, F.R.I. B. A. At the 
expiration of his term of five years, he 
was elected student of the Royal 
Academy. He then went to Belgium 
to measure and make drawings of St. 
Jacques Church, Leige, for 
Quarterly. He afterwards 
studied in Paris, Rome 
Venice and Munich, and 
travelled over Europe, Asia, 
and Egypt, perfecting him 
self in his profession. He 
returned to England in 
1848. In 1850 he opened 
an office in London, and in 
1852 he came to Canada 
and located in Brantford. 
He removed to Hamilton in 
1853, where he has resided 
ever since, and has designed 
and built many of the most 
ornate and substantial public 
and private buildings. For 
three years he was engineer 
for Wentworth Count}-, and 
also employed by the Domi 
nion Government as inspect 
ing architect at the Hamil 
ton, London and Orange- 
ville post offices, and 
other public buildings. Mr. 
Rastrick is an active and 
honorary member of various 
societies. He was P.G.S., 
G.L.C., Hon. M. Acacia L. 
66, A.I , oc A.M., president 
of St. George s Society four 
years, president of the 


Mechanics Institute four years, past 
and vice-president S.O.E., and hono 
rary member of Britannia Lodge S.O.E. 
He is now a member of the council of 
the Ontario Association of Architects, 
Toronto, appointed by the Lieutenant- 
Governor, and was instrumental in 
establishing the Public Library and 
Art School in Hamilton. Mr. Rastrick 
was married on the 2ist of July, 1857, 
to Anna Mary, daughter of Capt. E. L. 
Stephens, R.N., of Southampton, Eng. 
He has four sons and one daughter 
living, the eldest being in partnership 
with him. Mr. Rastrick is esteemed 
for undoubted honesty and integrity. 


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" 


I.. \\SOX HARRIS. president &gt;f 
A. Harris, Son \- C nt- 

= -.,;,;. ( &gt;:;t . is a son &lt;&gt;f Rev. 

Harris, a pioneer Baptist mini- 

"He was born on the ist of April, 1816, 
near Ingersoll, Oxford County, Out. 
His boyhood days were divided be 
tween working on his father s bush 
farm and attending the public school. 
He commenced to work in a saw 
mill early in life. In 1841, in con 
nection with his father, he built a 
saw mill in Brant County. He 
soon bought out his father s interest 
and did a thriving business. In 1857 
he sold the mill and bought a foundry 


in Heamsville, Lincoln Co. Ikiv he 
developed that great inventive ability 
and wonderful energy which has since 
characteri/ed him, and laid the founda 
tion for one of the largest agricultural 
manufacturing establishments &lt;n tin- 
continent. In 1872 he removed to 
Hrantford, having admitted his son 
John and Mr. J. K. Osborne into the 
business. Mr. Harris was converted at 
a revival service held at Boston, Out., 
when eighteen years of age, and at 
once joined the Baptist Church, of 
which he has ever since been an honored 
member. He has occupied nearly every 
official position in that denomination 
open to laymen. There are 
few men in the land who 
have given more money to 
the cause of Christ than 
Mr. Harris. The majority 
of the weaker Baptist 
churches in Ontario have 
felt the benefit of his warm 
heart and ample capital. 
He presented the church 
lot, costing $8,000, to the 
Walmer Road Baptist con 
gregation, Toronto, of which 
the Rev. Elmore Harris, his 
son, is pastor. He also gave 
the building lot to the Sault 
Ste. Marie Baptist Church. 
But his many benefactions 
cannot be enumerated in 
the short space of a page. 
He was married October 1 1 , 
1841, to Mary Morgan, of 
Beamsville, Out. Mr. and 
Mrs. Harris have had born 
to them six sons and six 
daughters only three of 
whom are still living. 
namely, the Rev. HI more 
Harris Mrs. Alfred 1 opple- 
well. and Tlios. M. Harris, 
treasurer of A. Harris. Son 

fc Co. 


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J 


OHX GALT, C.E., 

Toronto, was born 

at Kilirmirs, Ayr 
shire, Scotland, September 
23rd, 1852. He is a son 
of the late Captain Alex. 
Gait, of Kilmarnock, and 
grandson to and named 
after John Gait, of Irvine, 
relative of the Ayrshire 
novelist. He was educated 
at the Kilmarnock Academy, 
and, after obtaining a Gov 
ernment science scholar 
ship, took a full university 
course, and graduated in 
engineering at the univer 
sities of Glasgow and Lon 
don. For a time he follow 
ed his profession in Glasgow, 
being engaged in some of 
the large railway improve 
ment schemes, and was 
also Superintendent and 
Lecturer in the Government 
science schools in Glasgow 
for several years. He came 
to the United States in 
1878, and was engaged in 
railway engineering on the 
Southern lines for three 
years. In 1881 he came to 
Canada and accepted the position as 
general manager of the Boiler Inspec 
tion and Insurance Company of Canada, 
which position he held for four years. 
Since that time he has been engaged 
as consulting engineer, and has a very 
large and extensive business. He is 
considered one of the most reliable 
Hydraulic and Sanitary engineers in 
the province. He is regarded as a 
high authority on all matters pertain 
ing to his profession. He is an active 
member of the Canadian Institute of 
Civil Engineers, and for the past 
three years has held the position 
of Examiner in civil engineering 


in the University of Toronto. In 
this new and rapidly developing 
country the profession of civil engi 
neer is a most important one, dealing, 
as it does, with railways, canals, 
water works, and public improvements 
of all kinds. He does all kinds 
of engineering, furnishes plans and 
estimates for sewerage svstems and 
water works, and superintends their 
Mr. Gait was married 

ist, iSS4, to Eli/abeth. 

the late Thomas Webb. 
He is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and in politics is 
a Liberal. 


construction. 
on OctobtT 
daughter of 
Lansdoxvne. 


MI\ OF CANADA. 


Y/KRY RKV. \YM. BERGIN, 
Dean of Barrie, Barrie, Ont, 
was born November i6tli, 1X47, at 
Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. He 
was educated in Ireland. He began 
his classic course at the Abbey, Tip- 
pcrary, and completed his Latin and 
Greek course at the Diocesan College 
of his native diocese. After this he 
mine to America and entered the 
Vincentian College at Cape Girardan, 
Missouri, where he took a philosophical 
and theological course. Afterwards 
he joined tin- diocese of Toronto under 
the- late Archbishop Lynch, and in 
-; entered tin- Seminary of St. 


Sulpice. Montreal, where 
lu- completed liis studies 
preparatory to entering tin- 
priesthood. In i.S-,1 IH- 
was ordained priest at Lon 
don, Out., by the present 
Archbishop. He was then 
appointed assistant at the 
Cathedral, Toronto, and at 
Barrie. In 1871 he be 
came assistant priest at 
Catharines. In 1872 1 it- 
was appointed parish priest 
of Niagara, and subsequent 
ly he became priest of Flos, 
Simcoe County. In i.S;; 
he returned to Toronto and 
became rconome and assis 
tant rector and chancellor 
at the Cathedral. In 1881 
he was appointed to St. 
Mary s Church, Toronto, 
where he remained for near 
ly six years. In iSS6 he 
became parish priest of 
Newmarket, and remained 
there until 1891, when he 
received his present appoint 
ment, Dean of Barrie. 
While residing in Toronto 
he was financial secretary 
and treasurer of the Sepa 
rate School Board, during which time 
many new schools were erected, and 
through his instrumentality the City 
Council issued debentures by which 
the separate schools received money for 
building purposes on the same prin 
ciple as the public schools received it. 
During his ministration in the various 
shcs debts were wiped out and the 
different churches renovated, and fnllv 
supplied with necessary articles of fur 
niture befitting the services of God. 
During these years he has made tli 
trips to Kurope, and was secretary to 
the late Archbishop Lynch on his 
journey of 1*70. to Koine. 


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JACOB K. HOWELL, 
M.A., pastor of the North 
_ Street Methodist Church, 
Goderich, Out., and chairman of the 
district, was born in the township of 
Ameliasburg, Prince Edward County, 
August ist, 1835. He received his 
education at the public schools and 
Victoria University, Cobourg. He 
obtained a second-class certificate at 
the age of 1 8, upon which he taught 
three years. He graduated in 1863 
and then taught a year in Albert 
University. He joined the Methodist 
Conference in 1864 on probation, and 
before ordination, travelled Madoc and 


Hungerford circuits. He 
was ordained in 1868 in 
Kingston by the late Dr. 
Punshon, and since that 
date has served the fol 
lowing circuits : Thurlow, 
Bloomfield, Trenton, New 
castle, Aurora, Owen Sound, 
Seaforth, Berlin and Gode 
rich. He has been chair 
man of the following 
districts : Bradford, Oweii 
Sound, Goderich (twice), 
and Gait. For a goodly 
number of years he was 
also financial secretary of 
districts. He M-as secretary 
of the Guelph Conference 
in 1887-88, president in 
1889-90, a member of the 
General Conference in 1886 
and 1890, and representative 
from the General Conference 
of 1890 to the Evangelical 
Association. He is a mem 
ber of several important 
committees, such as the 
Book and Publishing and 
the Church Property com 
mittees, and that 011 Church 
Union. During his minis 
try Mr. Howell has built a 
number of churches, and, being a most 
excellent financier, has extinguished 
several heavy church debts. His 
ministry throughout has been evange 
listic and marked by the ingathering 
of thousands of souls. He was mar 
ried in the city of Belleville on the 
ist of July, 1868, to Lucy, only 
daughter of the late James Jamieson, 
Esq., County Surveyor for Hastings 
County. His family consists of four 
sons and three daughters, his eldest 
son being employed in the establish 
ment of T. Katon & Co., Toronto, and 
the next is prosecuting his studies in 
the University of Toronto. 


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I KRCIYAL 
L. SPENCER, .f 

^ = Thorold.Ont.,v. 
D at Portsmouth. Kn . 
,,11 tlie &gt;5th of March, 1X45. 
He came to Canada with 
his mother in 1853 and 
ted his brothers, who had 
. iously emigrated to 
Holland township, County 
of Grey, a tract then chiefly 
forest. He received his 
youthful education at Owen 
Sound Grammar School. 
After obtaining a first-class 
certificate before the County 
Board, and afterwards at 
the Normal School, Toronto, 
he tanght school for tea 
years in county, village, 
town and city. He then 
proceeded to Trinity Col 
lege, Toronto, at which, 
under the late Provost 
Whitaker, he took the theo 
logical course. At the close 
he obtained four volumes of 
Alford s Greek Testament, 
along with Bishop Moberly]s 
Bampton Lectures as " his 
moiety of the Hamilton 
Memorial Prize for 1873, 
and also the prize in the annual ex 
amination of the theological class for 
the year 1873." He was made deacon 
in "St. James Cathedral, Toronto, 
on October i8th, 1873, and ordained 
priest in St. James Church, Dundas, on 
October nth, 1874, by the late Bishop 
I .ethnne. After spending a few months 
in Ancaster, and three years in Wel 
lington Square as curate, he removed 
Mierston, where he remained until 
In the beginning of that year 
he was appointed incumbent of Elora 
and Alma, in which parish he con 
tinued for sex en years. While he was 
in Klora he was made Rural Dean of 


Wellington County by the late Bishop 
Fuller. He took a deep interest at tins 
time in educational affairs, being for 
txvo years president of the Mechanics 
Institute, a High School trustee, and 
president of the High School Literary 
iety. In 1887 he was appointed 
rector of Thorold and Port Robin 
by the present Bishop of Niagara. 
( hi leaving Elora he was presented 
xvith an illuminated address by the 
clergy of the Rural Deanery of Wel 
lington County. He was married on 
June ist, 187 I 1 - Kimna Selby. 

daughter of Thomas Sell.;. Esq., 
. now of Toronto. 


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CANADA. 


259 


^~(~&gt; 

THOMAS MOWBRAY, sculptor, 

Toronto, was born March 6th, 
1^29, at London, Eng. He received 
his education at the public schools 
there. At the age of ten years he 
began bis chosen work with his father, 
who was a leading scupltor. He also 
studied under the celebrated Patrick 
I arkes, who was a pupil of Thonvals- 
den, the Danish sculptor. The subject 
of our sketch has been engaged on 
some of the most important buildings 
in Kurope as we ll as in America. IL- 
did most of the restoration work on the 
old cathedrals throughout Knglaud, 
also tlie " Albert Memorial " mouu- 


ment and the Indian offices, London, 
J. cc C. Watts warehouses, Manchester, 
the Liverpool Exchange, on which he 
spent seven years, and others. He 
spent eighteen months on the celebrated 
Yanderbilt mansion, New York, was 
engaged on the Metropolitan Church, 
Toronto, Hank of 1!.X. A., new Custom 
House, St. James Cathedral and St. 
. \lbans Cathedral, Toronto. In religion 
Mr. Mowbray is an Episcopalian. He 
belongs to the Masonic Brotherhood 
and to the Ontario Society of Artists. 
He has IK-CII twice married first, in 
1 s ) ). to Eli/a Bain, who died in iS&gt;|. 
and again to E. Oakley, of Mam-he- 


260 


MI:N Ol CANA1 &gt;.\. 


-&lt;TNEY. JAS. HENRY KENNEDY, 
Iv Glanford, was born April i yth, 
V^&gt; 1832, in the township of 
Goul bourn, Carleton Count) , Out. He 
&gt; received his education at the public 
school, supplemented by private study, 
and afterwards received a first-class 
certificate, on which he taught for a 
time. He then entered Albert Co\\&gt; 
and, on leaving it, again taught school. 
At the- age of twenty he united with 
the Methodist Church, and bewail as a 
local preacher, and was then received 
into the regular ministry by the Niagara 
nfercnce of the M.H. Church in the 
ir 1867, and, after a two years pas 


torate on the Maitland Circuit, he was 
ordained a deacon by Bishop Richard 
son at London in 1869. He then sup 
plied Parkhill and afterwards Florence. 
He was ordained an elder at Lyndcn 
in 1872, and since that time has been 
stationed at High.yate, IVtrolia, Alvin- 
ston, Mount Elgin, Saltfl&lt; y, and, 

after the Methodist union, i886,atLouth 
and (irantham, Tintern, and his present 
charge at (ilanford. Eor ten years he 
was treasurer .f the Niagara Con 
Missionar. S ty. He lias alv. 

been a member of Alma Coll( ml. 

He married, Januar;. I\ . i ; - 

\\oodhall.of Delaware townshij). 


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JOHN WEATHERSTON, of 
Hamilton, Out., was born 3oth 
January, 1804, in Berwickshire, 
Scotland. He received his education 
at Greenlaw, in Berwickshire, and after 
wards worked on a farm from 1814 to 
1828. He then started contracting for 
large public grounds, landscape gar 
dening, etc., laying out among others 
the extensive policies of Lord Polwarth 
and the Duke of Roxburgh, and G. 
Belle, Esq. In 1837 he started rail 
roading as foreman on the Leeds and 
Thust Railway in the North of Eng 
land, and was until 1852 employed 
on all the principal railways in the 


North of England and Scotland. Mr. 
Weatherston. then came to Canada and 
accepted the responsible position of 
Inspector and Superintendent under 
George L. Reid, the Chief Engineer 
on the Great Western Railway. In a 
letter received by Mr. \Yeatherston 
from Mr. Reid in 1890, he says : " You 
are the only siirvivor of the chief track 
and bridge inspectors whom I left on 
the line when I retired in 1872. When 
I look back to the period when we had 
so much anxiety from defective rails in 
the winter and spring months, during 
many consecutive years, I feel that it 
was to your vigilance and foresight and 
unusual energy of charac 
ter that we were preserved 
from serious accidents. I 
was particularly fortunate 
in having as my chief prac 
tical helper one so thorough 
ly reliable and efficient." 
In 1875 Mr. Weatherston 
accepted a similar position 
on the Canada Southern 
Railway, which he held for 
five years. In 1880 he went 
to Michigan and built eighty 
miles of the Jackson, Lans 
ing and Saginaw Railway, 
and afterwards became track 
superintendent on the Cana 
dian Pacific Railway, iintil 
compelled by a serious acci 
dent to retire. Since that 
period he has been manage r 
and lessee of the Hamilton 
and Dunclas Railway, which 
he successfully conducts. 
Mr. Weatherston has been 
twice married, first to 
Frances B. Hall in 1836, and 
next to Isabelle Scott in 
1872. He is a member of 
the Masonic body. He is a 
Liberal in politics, and in 
religion a Presbyterian. 


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vllAkl.HS S. HOTCHKISS 

( tlu- Ka^le Cultivator Mam:: 

^ ^ = turing Company, Brantford, 
( )nt., was horn in the year iS^.j in the 
Conntv &lt;&gt;f Haldimand, and was married 
in i.s-- t&lt;&gt; Jennie P. \Villont;hhy. fourth 
daughter of the late Rev. W. \Vil- 
loughby, a well-known pioneer Metho 
dist minister, whose memory is held in 
esteem for his abundant labors in many 
parts of Ontario. He was educated in 
the public schools of the province. 
His father was one of the earliest 
settlers in the township of Oneida, and 
regarded by all who knew him as one 
of the best farmers in Ontario, and one 
of the most pronounced Re 
formers in the locality 
where he resided. Soon 
after leaving school, Mr. 
Hotchkiss entered the ser 
vice of the Grand Trunk 
Railway at Caledonia as 
telegraph operator and ticket 
agent. Aftersomethree years 
service at this point, he was 
promoted to the Stratford 
ticket office, and on Septem 
ber 2ist, 1877, was appoint 
ed as chief train despatcher 
for the Hamilton and North 
Western Railway at Hamil 
ton. On Nov. ist, 1 88 1, he 
removed to Battle Creek, 
Michigan, to accept the 
position of train despatcher 
on the Chicago and Grand 
Trunk Railway. After serv 
ing in this position for over 
a year, he became superin 
tendent s secretary, and, 
after eighteen months, was 
iin promoted to the re- 
tion of train 

master, which lie held until 
August. 1887, when failing 
health compelled hi- 
nation and his connection 


with railroad work, in which he had 
been so eminently successful. Mr. 
I lotdikiss tlu-n removed with his family 
to Brantford, and, after iv-aining his 
health, entered the manfactnring busi 
ness as one of the partn&lt; tin 
gle Cultivator Company, and also 
manager of its agencies. Mr. Hotch 
kiss is a member of the Colborne 
eet Methodist Church, steward, 
Bible-class teacher, and also a most 
acceptable lay preacher. He is regard 
ed by his numerous friends as a man 
of the highest integrity and Christian 
character, and enjoys the full confi 
dence of all who know him. 


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CANADA. 


263 


~-&lt;7*&gt;KY. RICHARD W. WOODS- 

JV WORTH, Niagara Falls South, 

V- Out., was bom at Toronto 

July 5th, 1846, being the second son of 
the late Richard \Voodsworth, architect 
and builder of that place, who for forty 
years was a local preacher in the 
Mt-thodist Church. He received his 
education at the public schools and the 
Model School, Toronto. At the age of 
seventeen he took a position as clerk in 
a mercantile house, and after that be 
came a clerk in the office of the Canada 
Permanent Building and Saving Society 
of Toronto. Mr. Woodsworth was con 
verted when a young child, and became 


a full member of the Metho 
dist Church at eleven years 
of age. He felt called to 
the sacred ministry early in 
life, and at the age of 
twenty-one consecrated him 
self to the service of the 
Methodist Church. He was 
received as a probationer in 
the Canada Conference in 
1867. Before he was or 
dained he travelled the fol 
lowing circuits : Smithville, 
Aurora, Thorold, Chatham. 
He was ordained a minister 
at Belleville in 1871 by the 
late Rev. Dr. Win. Morley 
Punshon, who was at that 
time president of the Metho 
dist Conference. During 
his ministry Mr. Woods- 
worth served the churches 
at Wardsville, Ridgetown 
and Jarvis, then Ridgetown 
again. Afterwards he was 
appointed to Dundas. then 
Colborne Street Church, 
Brantford, from which he- 
was removed to his present 
charge. The church build 
ings at Wardsville, Both- 
well, Ridgetown, Morpeth 
and Colborne Street, Brantford, were 
built under his administration. He is 
one of the best financiers in the Metho 
dist Church, and, indeed, has scarcely 
a peer in the denomination for tha t 
special work. He is also an earnest 
(iospel preacher, a man of deep and 
sterling piety and greatly beloved by 
all, and especially by a large number 
in the various churches who have been 
led by him into a higher and nobler life. 
He has held many prominent positions 
in the gift of the Conference, and pos 
sesses the confidence of all his brethren. 
He was married on the nth of July, 
1871, to Miss Charlotte J. Bridginan. 


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=^TX AMI-I. SPRY, 

1 Office Injector, of 
*- Barrk-. Out., was 
born Novemlx.-r 29. 18 
in the township of Marl- 
borough, Carlton County, 
at He received his edu 
cation at the public schools 
in his native county and at 
the Model School, Toronto. 
On the completion of his 
studies he was for a time in 
a law and land office, then 
turned his attention to mer 
cantile pursuits. He was 
appointed to the Toronto 
Post Office in 1854, where 
he remained fifteen years, 
and was promoted from time 
to time, until he was trans 
ferred in 1869 to the Post 
Office Savings Bank at Ot 
tawa. Soon afterwards, ow 
ing to ill-health, he was 
obliged to resign his posi 
tion in the Post Office De 
partment, when he engaged 
in mercantile business in 
Toronto, which he carried 
on until 1876, when he 
received the appointment of 
Post Office Inspector for the 
East Toronto Division, and was trans 
ferred to the town of Barrie in 1879 
and placed in charge of that postal 
division. Mr. Spry belongs to _the 
Masonic body, and has filled various 
offices in that organization, including 
that of Grand Master. He is a Knight 
Tt-mplar and holds the office of Grand 
Chancellor in that order; he has also 
received the 33rd degree of the A. & 
He has taken part in military 
affairs, having served as ensign in the 
ii Royal Regimeutancl lieutenant in 
the Queen s ( )\vn Rifles, Toronto. I le 
has Cecil a director of the Toronto I Ionic 
Building .W iation, vice-president of 


the Toronto Mechanics Institute, and 

president of the Mechanics Institute, 

Barrie. He was also president of the 

Ontario Literary Society, Toronto, is a 

member of the Barrie Public School 

Hoard of Trustees, of which he has 

Wn chairman. In religion he is an 

;&gt;alian, and has been a delegate 

to the Synod of Toronto for a number 

past. Mr. Spry has la-en 

twice married first, on the .V d of May, 

59, to Mi&gt;s Mary Jam- Bu and 

lin, on April 3oth. 1867, to M 

Mary K-. daughter of Chas. G. I-Wtier, 

of Sandwich, formerly C I 11 " 

land Revenue, Hamilton, Out. 


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THOS. C. \YATKINS, 
Hamilton, Out., was 
born August gth, 1818, 
at Parsonstown, King s 
County, Ireland. He is 
descended from Welsh on 
the one side, and from the 
Scottish Covenanters on the 
other side, and is the proud 
possessor of a Bible printed 
in 1648, which descended to 
him through a long line 
of Scotch ancestors. His 
parents emigrated to Canada 
before he was a year old, 
and settled in Esquesing 
township, Halton County. 
Here the subject of our 
sketch received such an 
education as the schools of 
those days afforded, but 
having a thirst for knowl 
edge, and being possessed 
of indomitable energy and 
perseverance, he succeeded 
in obtaining a first-class 
education. He remained on 
the farm with his father 
until he was twenty-two 
years of age. He com 
menced teaching school in 
1841, and taught for two 
years. After giving up the teaching 
profession, he worked on a farm for a 
time, and then engaged in mercantile 
business, in which he has been eminently 
successful. Mr. Watkins is a member 
of the Methodist Church, and has held 
most of the offices that laymen are 
appointed to in that denomination, as 
well as being a delegate to the General 
Conference. He is a total abstainer 
from the use of tobacco and alcoholic 
liquors, and has been a staunch life 
long advocate of prohibition, and hopes 
to see this act passed by the Dominion 
of Canada before he passes away. He 
has had published some two hundred 


and sixty thousand tracts on the tem 
perance question for free distribution, 
and intends to run them into the 
millions as fast as he can compose 
them. These tracts will no doubt have 
a very great influence, and do much 
to hasten the prohibitory act in Canada. 
Mr. Watkins lias been a great traveller, 
having visited the United States, Eng 
land, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Switzer 
land, France, Germany, Holland, Bel 
gium, and other parts. He was married 
on May 24, 1844, to Elizabeth Ann 
Murchison. His successful life fully 
illustrates the power of an honest 
purpose to succeed. 


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jEY. JAMES A. ANDERSON, 
|V^ B.A., pastor of Knox Presbj-- 
X) teriau Church, Goderich, 
Ont., son of the Rev. John Anderson, 
of Tiverton, was born on the 9th of 
February, 1853, in the township of 
Napean. Comity of Carleton, Ont. He 
rived his education at the public 
schools of Ontario, Kincardine High 
tool, Ottawa Collegiate Institute, 
:iud Mi-Gill University, Montreal. He 
matriculated at the "latter, taking a 
scholarshi]) in 1873 and graduating 
B.A. in iS;;. In the fall of 1^77 he 
entered the Presbyterian ^ . M&gt;nt- 

te liis theological stn&lt;: 


Ik- took the honor i&lt;-nrse 
for two years, and secured 
a scholarship in each year. 
IK- iM aduatcd in iN. s &lt;&gt; as 
Valedictorian of his class. 
He was ordained and in 
ducted into the pastoral 
charge of Whitechurch, 
County of Bruce, on the 
7th of October, 1880, hav 
ing declined other calls pre 
sented to him at the same 
time. After a pastorate of 
three years, he received a 
call to Elora, which he de 
clined, and afterwards, in 
1888, accepted a call to his 
present charge, as colleague 
and successor to the Rev. 
Dr. Pre, one of the most 
accomplished and able min 
isters of the Presbyterian 
Church. Early in the year 
1891 Dr. Ure, on account of 
failing health, was com 
pelled to resign, when Mr. 
Anderson assumed full 
charge of this large and 
important congregation, and 
filled the important vacancj" 
with much acceptance to 
the people. Mr. Anderson 
is an earnest temperance advocate, 
and a pronounced prohibitionist. He 
is one of the most prominent and pro 
mising preachers of Western Ontario, 
an earnest and successful evangelist, 
and has been blessed by large additions 
to his ministry wherever he has labored. 
The town of Goderich, where he is 
settled, commands a very large and 
thickly settled community of Presby 
terians, where his influence and labors 
are highly appreciated. Mr. Anderson 
was married on the 2oth of April, 

[isa C. Isabel, daughter 
Hugh Masson, of Hillings Hri&lt;: 
iwa. 


MKX OK CANADA. 


267 


JOHX H. MOORK, 
of the firm of 
Bowman & Moore, 
Hamilton, eldest son of 
Charles Moore, Esq., of 
Grinisb}-, Out., was born 
there on 23rd of August, 
1848. He is a descendant 
of U. E. Lo} T alists, his great 
grandfather having come to 
this country about the year 
1790. He was educated at 
the Grimsby Grammar 
School, and, after complet 
ing his studies in 1866, 
went to St. Catherines, 
where he spent two years 
as an apprentice in the 
hardware business. He 
came to Hamilton in 1868 
and completed his appren 
ticeship by serving one year 
with what was then one of 
the leading hardware firms 
of that city. In 1869 he 
went into business with a 
partner under the style of 
Bowman & Moore, which 
partnership still exists. 
There are very few firms 
now in existence that began 
at the above mentioned date. 
During these years the hardware trade 
has seen many fluctuations, but this 
firm has more than held its own, doing 
business on a straightforward and 
sound basis, taking in all improve 
ments, purchasing in the best markets 
from reliable manufacturers, and al 
ways providing the best for their num 
erous patrons, until to-day it holds tin.- 
proud position of, not only being the 
leading hardware house in Hamilton, 
but also in Western Canada. The firm 
make a speciality of builders and con 
tractor s supplies, nails, agricultural 
tools, paints, oils, beltings, and window- 
;lass in all its various thicknesses. Tn 


this latter line they are amongst the 
largest importers in Ontario. They 
are also widely known and appreciated 
by men engaged in the cabinet manu 
facturing business, for there is no firm 
in the province that has so large and 
complete an assortment of cabinet 
makers hardware as this house is 
compelled to carry in order to 
supply their extensive trade. Mr. 
Moore has been a member of the Cen 
tenary Methodist Church for over 
twenty years, is a member of the 
Hoard of Trustees, and also the Quar 
terly Board. In politics he is an 
active Reformer. 


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EV. WM. M. TEEPLE, pastor 
of the Methodist Church, Troy, 

^= Out., is the son of the late 
W. H. Teeple, of Jerseyville, Out., and 
- was born at that place on the 8th of 
November, 1854. He is of U. E. 
Loyalist stock, his grandfather com 
ing to this country from the United 
States on account of his loyalty to old 
England just after the revolutionary 
war and settled in the township of 
.son. Halton County. Mr. Teeple 
was educated at the public schools, and 
is also a graduate of Hamilton Com 
mercial College. In his twenty-first 
year he was convert, d and joined the 


M.K. Church in Canada. 
He was received as a pro 
bationer at the Conference 
held at St. Thomas in 1877. 
He pursued his theologi&lt; 
and other studies with such 
energy and success that he 
was ordained deacon in i s^u 
and elder in jSSi. Be: 
the latter he was on the fol 
lowing circuits : Tapley- 
town, Beverly, Norwich and 
Malahide. After ordination 
he served the following cir 
cuits : Blenheim, Seaforth, 
Canboro and Cayuga. As 
a preacher, Mr. Teeple has 
an easy deliver}-, free from 
the mannerisms that depre 
ciate the value of many ad 
dresses. His sermons are 
thoughtful and sufficiently 
racy to hold the unflagging 
attention of the congrega 
tion. Large additions to 
the membership and new 
churches are to be found on 
the circuits he has travelled, 
and he is beloved by all 
those under his pastoral 
care. The ministers who 
follow him find all the in 
terests of the church well looked 
after, both materially and spiritually. 
He will doubtless take a leading 
place in the church of his choice. 
He is also an enthusiastic temperance 
worker, and has done good work in this 
connection. At Seaforth the teni] 
ance societies, as a mark of a] 
tion of his worth, entertained him at a 
public dinner, and on that occasion 
presented him with a flattering illumi 
nated address and a well filled pr. 
Mr. Tecple was married on the 2-Sth 
of July. : " Mi-s Ida Ly:. 

daughter of the late Thomas Ly: 
of Norwich. 


MEX OP CAXADA. 


269 


. ROBERT WALK.KR, Walkerton, 
Out., was born June loth, 1839, near 
^ Brockville, in the County of Leeds. 
His parents were natives of Ireland and came 
to Canada in 1830, settling at Smith s Falls. 
He received his education at the public school 
and at Strathroy High School. He pursued 
the study of theology under the late Dr. 
McClure, of Toronto. He entered the minis 
try in 1861, and before ordination had four 
charges. He was ordained in 1865, after 
which he travelled the following circuits : 
Durham three years, Melbourne three years, 
Burr two years, Omemee three years, Bethany, 
Tweed, Stirling, Newcastle, Clifford, and 
Walkerton, his present charge. In 1887 he 
was appointed chairman of Mount Forest 
District, and is at present financial secretary of 
Walkerton District. Mr. Walker was married 
on June I5th, 1865, to Miss Annie Eli/.a Hath 
away, daughter of John Hathaway, of West 
Flamhoro . County of Wcntworth. He is one 
of the first men of the Methodist denoniina 
tioii, and for thirty years has preached the 
Gospel continuously. 


V\/IL,LIAMMcI,EOD,merchant,Geoige- 

V r town, Out., was born November 
iSth, 1838, in Caithnesshire, Scotland. He 
received his education at the public schools 
there. At an early age he decided to follow 
the dry goods business, and entered into this 
business at Wick, and afterwards at Glasgow. 
In 1857 he came to Canada and settled in Oak- 
ville, and remained there about three year*, 
when he removed to the United States. Re 
turning, lived at Rockwood a short time prior 
to 1863, then went to Georgetown, and entered 
as partner in a dry goods business, which he 
now fully controls. Mr. Mcl,eod takes an 
active part in politics, and in iSS7 was the 
Reform candidate. He was a member of tin- 
Town Council eighteen years, was Reeve of 
Georgetown for nine years, and Warden for 
Haltou County in iSS4. In religion he is a 
Presbyterian, and for several years was chair 
man of the Hoard of Management. He has 
been a Justice of the Peace for Ilaltoii 
tiftcen years, is a member of the His;h School 
Hoard, of the Masonic Brotherhood, and of the 
Ancient Scottish Rite. He- was twice married. 


270 


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JAMES FLECK GORDON, L.D.S., 
Harriston, Out., was born May I4th. 
1823, at Bonds Lake, York County. 
His parents were natives of Pumfrieshire, 
Scotland. He was educated at the public 
...Is. At an early age he was apprenticed 
to the carriage manufacturing business, and 
in 1843 started business on his own account 
as carriage builder, etc. In 1850 he purchase* 
a saw mill and began the manufacture of 
lumber, and also engaged extensively in fann 
ing. In 1864 he turned his attention to den 
tistry- and began the practice of his profession 
in Dray ton. In addition to his office in Har 
rison, he has an office in Elora, which is 
tarried on by his daughter, Mrs. Grigg, who 
- the first woman in Ontario to practice 
dentistry. She has been associated with her 
father in this profession for eighteen years. 
Mr. Gordon has a son also practicing dentistry 
It i&gt; needless to say that, U-ing 
nd having two children grad- 
of detiti-t:y. he -tan-K at tin- lu-ad ..f hi- 

rricd i:. ii/abeth. 

dat:. ! 


JOHN EDGAR CROLY, Dunnvilk. 
Out., was born in the year 1X44, at 
Mallow, County of Cork, Ireland. 
He received his education at the University of 
Toronto, where he was a medalist and took 
high honors. He came to Canada in 1850, 
and resided for longer or shorter periods at 
Belleville, Kingston and Picton. He studied 
for the Presbyterian ministry, and after com 
pleting his course, was for several years settled 
at Millbank, Perth County, where he rendered 
efficient sen-ice, and was exceedingly popular 
as a preacher and a platform speaker in the 
surrounding county. He was then appointed 
on the Collegiate Institute staff in S 
and in 1890 accepted the position of head 
master of the Dunnville High School, which 
he has filled with advantage to the pupil* 
an ,; ion to all concerned. Mr. Cn.ly 

i member of the Board of Management 

-i.yterian Church, siiperintcii 
of the Sabbat: .nd dip 

the Mechanics Institute. In politics he 

Hi- wife die . 
leaving one -u and Uvo d 


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271 


JV LHXAXDER McMURCHIE, 
jL \ manufacturer of Fanning 
^^ Mills, Clinton, Ont., was born 
August ist, 1835, i 11 the township of 
Yaughan, York County. His father, 
the late James McMurchie, was one of 
the first settlers in that township. He 
received his education at the public 
schools, but otherwise is a self-taught 
man. Until the age of 24 he worked 
on his father s farm, and then, in 
1859, moved to Clinton and engaged 
with Malcolm McTaggart to sell 
fanning mills for the firm, of which 
he has now become the head. 
In November, 1862, Mr. McMurchie 
and Mr. Joseph Chidley 
were made partners, and 
the business carried on 
under the style of Malcolm 
McTagart "& Co. until 
November, 1882, when the 
partnership was dissolved 
and Mr. McMurchie became 
sole proprietor. Shortly 
after this he took two of 
the old employees into part 
nership with him, and this 
arrangement now continues 
under the name of A. 
McMurchie & Co. This is 
the oldest established manu 
facturing firm in the town 
of Clinton, and one of the 
oldest in the Province of 
Ontario, having been estab 
lished first at Ik-achville 
and afterwards in Clinton 
in 1849. The firm has 
been remarkably successful 
throughout the many years 
of its existence, and its 
operations now extend to 
every part of Western On 
tario. As many as a thou 
sand mills have been manu 
factured in a year, and there- 
is still a good demand for 


them. Mr. McMurchie is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, a trustee, 
and has been on the Board of Manage 
ment for many years. He is a Reformer 
in politics, and has been reeve of the 
town for seven }-ears in succession, 
being elected most of that time by ac 
clamation. He enjoys the esteem and 
confidence of the community at large, 
irrespective of political or religious 
creed. He was married on the 27th 
February, 1867, to Miss Agnes Hart, 
of the township of East Zorra, County 
of Oxford. His career has been marked 
by a thorough knowledge of his business 
and a strict integrity in his dealings. 


\ii \ OF CANADA. 


:v. TESSE GIBSON, oi 
Catharines, Ont., was born &lt;.u 

- :i&lt;l of 1 )ecemlx.-r, 1^57, 

at Brantford. He received his educa 
tion at the public schools and Collegiate 
Institute there, and at Spurgeon s 
Pastors College, London, Eng. He 
learned the business of a printer, and 
for some time was foreman of the press 
room of the Brantford Expositor. He 
also worked in Buffalo on the Commer 
cial Advertiser. He was converted 
in 1874 during the revival held in 
ntford by Varley, and commenced 
Christian work immediately in connec 
tion with V.M.C.A., preaching in the 


jail, distributing tracts, etc. He was 
raised a Methodic, hut changing his 
views on the subject of baptism, lie 
joined the Baptist" denomination, and 
united with the First Baptist Church. 
mtforcl. In 1*77 lie felt called f. 
the ministry, and gave up his husin- 
to take a theological course. The late 
John Harris, of Brantford, recogni/iug 
his call to the ministr}-, generously 
offered to bear the expense of his edu 
cation, including a three years course 
in England. While in England lie be 
came temporary pastor of two churches. 
Returning to Canada in 1881, he went 
to Plattsville, where he remained one 
year, when he received a 
call to Portage la Prairie, 
Man. He was pastor of the 
church there five years and 
secretary of the Manitoba 
Baptist Missions. Return 
ing to Ontario, he was two 
j ears at St. George, when 
he received a pressing invi 
tation to the Queen Street 
Baptist Church, St. Catha 
rines, his present charge, 
which he accepted, much to 
the regret of the people at 
St. George. Notwithstand 
ing the great disastrous fire, 
the burning of the church 
to the ground, one year 
after removing to this cha : 
under his leadership and 
inspiration, the o.ngn 
tion, with commendable 
energy, immediately set to 

work and erected a la: 
and beautiful edifice, and 
the church is now in a 
prosperous condition, both 
spiritually and financially. 
He was mar- :i the 

1 7th of January, 
to Mi . a Stubbs, of 

Brantford. 


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273 


\\7lLLIAM BRUCE, Hamilton, 
r * Out., was born on the jth of 
November, 1833, at Unst, an island on 
the coast of Scotland, and came with 
his parents to Hamilton in 1837. He 
was educated under the late Dr. Tassie. 
As a boy he was noted for his strength, 
skill and activity in all outdoor sports 
and games. At the age of sixteen he 
entered as apprentice in McQuesten & 
Co. s iron works, where he soon became 
so skillful that the foreman frequently 
took his work and exhibited it to jour 
neymen, asking them why they did not 
do their work as creditably as au ap 
prentice. At the close of his apprentice 


ship, a rheumatic affection caused him 
to abandon the iron business and take a 
course in Oberlin College, Ohio, where 
he graduated, and subsequently a 
course at the Eastman Business Col 
lege, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He then 
became connected with the public 
schools in Hamilton, and remained in 
them from 1858 to 1867, when he went 
into business. Mr. Bruce is a many- 
sided man, possessing the mechanical 
and artistical faculties in an eminent 
degree. Whether it is in mechanical 
drawing, designing, engrossing and 
illuminating as a professional, or as an 
amateur in water colors, oil painting, 
amateur photography, or 
public reading, he excels in 
all. At the present he is 
engaged in making plans 
and specifications of new 
inventions, and engrossing 
and illuminating. He has ex 
ecuted an immense amount 
of this class of work for 
nearly every country in the 
world. Many eminent per 
sonages possess samples of 
his illuminating work, 
among whom may be men 
tioned Her Majesty Queen 
Victoria, the Prince of 
\Yales, the Empress of 
Germany, the Marquis of 
Lome, Lord Dufferin and 
many others. Mr. Bruce 
was married on the ist of 
March, 1855, to Jennette 
Blair, a lady remarkable 
for mental and physical 
activity. The rising Cana 
dian artist, \Y. Blain Bruce, 
is his son, and Bella C. 
Bruce, his daughter, both 
of whom are studying art 
in Rome at present. He is 
a member of the Central 
Presbyterian Church. 


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MKN &lt; &gt;i CANADA. 


J 


OHX \\ F.SI.HY BICKLK was 
born in Devon. Kng., on the 
4th of July, 1*24. His parents 
came to Canada in iS; v j, and after a 
\ ear s residence near St. Thomas, re 
moved to Hamilton, where for nearly 
sixty years the family has taken an 
active interest in the growth and pros 
perity of that city- He was educated 
at the Gore District Grammar School, 
Hamilton, and Victoria College, and in 
1848 he entered his father s wholesale 
and retail drug business, and for nearly 
fort) years the firm of T. Bickle & Son 
had a wide reputation throughout 
Western Ontario. Of late Mr. Bickle 
has been in the brokerage 

business, which he has car- 

ried on successfully. From 
earliest years he was an active 
member in the Methodist 
Church, and was especially 
interested in Sabbath School 
work. In 1839 was ap 
pointed a teacher, then 
secretary, and in 1850 a 
superintendent, and for 
thirty -nine years gave the 
earnest efforts of the prime 
of his life to the cause he 
loved so well. In 1878 he 
united with the Central 
Presbyterian Church, of 
which he is now a member. 
Having the interests of the 
young at heart, he has 
naturally taken part in the 
cause of education, and for 
ic years was a member 
of the Public School Board. 
The o]&gt;eration of the Hamil 
ton Bible Society early en- 
_;ed his attention, and he 
is one of the oldest mem 
bers of the committee, and 
has been its treasurer for 
the past twenty years. The 
charities of die city have 


found in him a /.ealous friend, one 
ready to give his time with untiring 
devotion to promote their welfare. 
As a member of the advisory com 
mittee of "The Infants Home," as 
the secretary-treasurer of " Trust 
of the Girls Home," and as ; rv- 

treasurer of "Trustees of Hamilton 
Orphan Asylum," he has proved him 
self a judicious counsellor and faithful 
guardian of the trusts committed to his 
keeping. He was married on the i2th 
of September, 1848, to Mary Proudfoot, 
eldest daughter of the late Robert 
Johnston, Esq., of " Annandale," near 
Grafton, Out. 


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"AMES AUSTIN, president of 
the Dominion Bank, Toronto, 
Ont., was born in the year 
in the County of Armagh, Ire 
land. His parents were John and Jane 
Marks Austin. He received his early 
education at the public schools of his 
native place. His parents came to 
Canada when he was in his sixteenth 
year, and he was apprenticed to the 
printing trade for four years. During 
the time he was serving his appren 
ticeship, he was constant in his atten 
dance at the night schools. After com 
pleting his apprenticeship, he worked 
as a journeyman printer in various 


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parts of Canada and the United States 
for ten years. In the year 1844 he 
entered into partnership with Patrick 
Foy in the wholesale and retail grocery 
business. This partnership existed for 
sixteen years, during which time the 
firm carried on a very extensive busi 
ness. Upon the dissolution of the part 
nership, Mr. Austin retired from active 
business, and shortly after became in 
terested in various financial institutions. 
In 1871 he founded the Dominion 
Bank and became its president, which 
position he still holds. He is also pre 
sident of the Consumers Gas Co., 
Toronto, besides being president and 
vice-president of several in 
surance companies, and 
chairman of the Canadian 
Board of the North of Scot 
land Canadian Mortgage 
Co. Mr. Austin, in politics, 
belongs to the Reform part}-, 
but has never taken an 
active part in political cam 
paigns. In the truest sense 
of the word, he is a 
self-made man, having at 
tained his present prominent 
position and circumstances 
by indomitable energy and 
perseverance. He received 
a limited education in vouth, 
but fired with ambition and 
a thirst for knowledge, he 
prosecuted his studies alone 
and at night schools, while 
serving his apprenticeship, 
thus educating and fitting 
himself for the higher call 
ings of life. Step by step 
he reached his present posi 
tion, and is now one of To 
ronto s most highly esteem 
ed and respected citi/ens. 
He married, in 1844, Miss 
Susun Bright, by whom he 
has three children living. 


MEN OF CAN A MA. 


RKY. I . FRANCIS 
CRINNON. 1 &gt;.!&gt;., Bishop of 
^s Hamilton. &lt; &gt;nt.. was born 
in 1820 in the parish of Collon, County 
I.outh, Ireland. Ik- studied classics, 
philosophy and the sciences in his 
native land, and, after coming to 
Canada in iSv &gt;. prosecuted his theolo 
gical studies at the Grand Seminary, 
Montreal, where he was ordained 
deacon. In the year 1854 he was 
ordained priest by Bishop De Char- 
bonnel in Toronto, and was immediate 
ly sent to London as assistant priest. 
Shortly after he was appointed parish 
priest, and was for many years one of 
the only three priests in 
what was then known as 
the Huron tract. In the 
year 1858 he was trans 
ferred to Stratford, where, 
much beloved and esteemed, 
he remained for sixteen 
years tip to the time of his 
elevation as Bishop to the 
See of Hamilton, of which 
he was consecrated Bishop 
in St. Joseph s, Stratford, 
on the 1 9th of April, 1874. 
in presence of an immense 
congregation, twenty arch 
bishops and bishops five of 
whom were classmates and 
fifty priests. During his 
incumbency in Stratford, 
the present beautiful church 
was built, and the priest s 
house, both of which he 
left free from debt. His 
first official act as Bishop of 
Hamilton was to go to Ire 
land to secure additional 
priest- or students. He suc 
ceeded in securing three 
priests and eleven student-, 
of whom the present parish 
priest ofDtmnville, Rev. J. h. 
Crinion. was one. Hi- 


of ci.nht years was remarkable for ad 
ministrative ability and foresight. St. 
Patrick s Church. Hamilton, is a monu 
ment to his xeal, as well as the farm ot 
seventy-tive acres, known as " Rock 
," now of almost priceless value as 
a cemetery, the site chosen for the 
present St. Lawrence Church. 1 k died 
November 25, 1882, in Jacksonville, 
Florida, U.S., where he had gone in 
the hope of recovering his failing 
health. The priests and people of 
the diocese of Hamilton, his faithful 
and beloved parishioners in Stratford, 
etc., etc., sincerely mourn his loss and 
cherish his memory. 


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^^XKV. JAMKS KUGENE CRINION, parish 
\"\ priest of Dunnville, Ont., was born in 
" V&gt;^&gt; t ^ le P ar i- s h f Slane, County of 
Meath, Ireland, in the year 1858. He received 
his education in St. Finian s Seminar}-, Navan. 
County of Meath, Ireland, St. Michael s College, 
Toronto, and finally at the Grand Seminary. 
Montreal. He came to Canada at the age of 
sixteen, and was one of a number of students 
who accompanied the late lamented Bishop 
Crinion, of Hamilton, when he went to Ireland 
for students. Father Crinion was first appointed 
as curate of St. John s Church, Arthur, Welling 
ton County. Afterwards he became curate of 
St. Basil s Church, Brantford, where he remained 
three years. He was then appointed as the first 
resident pastor of the church in Dunnville, where 
he still labors. Since his appointment to Dunn 
ville he has built an exceedingly handsome 
church and residence, which are not only a credit 
to the congregation, but are ornaments to the 
town. During his Brantford curacy he was 
chairman and treasurer of the Separate 
vSchool Board, and much esteemed by all 
who knew him. 


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ILLIAM NEIL, Flesherton, Ont., eldest 
son of the late Charles Neil, of the 
Isle of Man, was born at the latter place in 1831. 
He spent his earlier years upon farms until 1850, 
when he left for New York, and afterwards re 
moved to Rochester. He then attended the 
public school for six months, this being the only 
regular education that Mr. Neil received. Leav 
ing Rochester, he came with friends to Port 
Darlington, Out., who took up a farm near 
Bowmanville, and remained working with them 
some six years. After some years spent in that 
neighborhood, he removed to Flesherton. and 
bought a bush farm, which he cleared and sold 
in i&lt;S8i, when he settled upon his present pro 
perty in the village of Flesherton and retired 
from agricultural pursuits. Mr. Neil was mar 
ried in 1861 to Martha, daughter of the late 
Wm. Nay, Ksi|.. County of Durham. He is a 
Conservative in politics, and a meinl&gt;er of the 
Presbyterian Church, and an elder of the same. 
His whole life has been characteri/ed by careful 
industry and patient perseverance, and his uni 
form integrity fully entitles him to the high 
esteem in which he is held. 


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iKV. RICHARD W. E. GREENE, L.T., 
Incumbent of St. James Church, Orillia, 
and Canon of St. Alban s Cathedral, 
.to, Ont., was bom June 26th, 1848, at 
Roseland, Port Nelson, Halton County, Ont. 
He studied for matriculation with his father, the 
Rev. Dr. Greene, and afterwards spent five years 
at Trinity College, Toronto, where he obtained 
the Cameron scholarship, and afterwards toofc tin- 
degree of L.T. He was one of the volunteers 
in the Fenian Raid, and present at the skirmish 
at Ridgeway. He was ordained deacon June 
i8th, 1871, and appointed to the new mission of 
Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay. In 1872 he was 
ordained to the priesthood in St. James Cathedral, 
and put in charge of the mission at Byng 
Inlet. He next served St. James Cathedral as 
second curate for thirteen years, associated 
with Dean Grasett, Dr. Rainsford and Canon 
Dumoulin. From Toronto he went to Western. 
and after two years moved to St. Loin s. 
Mi-soiiri. Then returning to Canada, ac-&lt; 
his present appointment. He was married August 

4th, 1875, to ICli/aU-th Dallas, daughter of Rev. 
Canon Saii.son, Toronto. 


T oriS J. HRKITHAriT Hi din Out., 

I horn in 1X55 in Buffalo, N.V.. from \v: 

"^* he i-aine to Canada. His father 

very prominent in business and miuiiei]&gt;il ei: 

and mayor of Berlin at the time of his death in 

Mr. Breithaupt was married in 
Emma Alvarene, daughti : I win. 

of Waterloo, Ont. He was educated at Berlin 
and Toronto, and is now engaged in the tanning 
business, (which trade he learnt practically), 
lieing president of the Breithaupt Leather Com 
pany, Limited, who have extensive establish 
ments in Berlin and Penetanguishene, Ont. He 
was seven years a niemlxT of the town Council, 
three years in the County Council, and two years 
mayor being the youngest mayor Berlin has 
had. He is president of the Ontario Bark Com 
pany, Limited, of the Berlin Gas Company, 
and is also connected with other manufactur 
ing enterprises in Berlin. He is a school trustee, 
and has recently been unanimously elected 
president of the Board of Trade. Mr. Breithaupt 
is an active meml&gt;er of the German 
Evangelical Church, and is ever ready to 
promote its welfare. 


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. |EV. JOHN J. MORTON, of the 
JV Anglican Church, Port Col- 
V^s-, 1)orne, Out., was born in 1846 
in the village of Shakspeare, County 
of Perth, Out. He received his educa 
tion at the public school of his native 
place and the Niagara Falls Grammar 
School, and studied theology at Huron 
College, London, where he graduated in 
1X74. He received a scholarship at his 
first examination. He was ordained 
deacon in iN-.| by Bishop Hellninth, of 
London, and priest in the s;mic year. 
His first charge- \vas at Markdalc, 
County of drey. Then afterwards he 
spent six years in Michigan. Return 


ing to Canada in 1882, he labored five 
and one-half years in Birtle, Mani 
toba, with very encouraging success. 
After which he was appointed to Low- 
ville, and later to Port Colborne and 
Marsh ville, in the diocese of Niagara. 
These congregations have greatly in 
creased tinder his pastoral care. Pre 
vious to his ordination, Mr. Morton was 
four years engaged in teaching. In 
politics he is a staunch Conservative. 
He was married in 1X83 to Catherine 
Kllen Simpson, daughter of an Knglish 
rector. Their family consists of a boy 
and girl, who were both born in Birtle, 
Manitoba. 


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AMKS MACFADDEN, Strat 
ford, Clerk of the County 
Court, Local Registrar of the 
High Court of Justice, and Registrar 
of the Surrogate Court for the County 
of Perth, was born April 25th, 1821, in 
Xissouri township, Middlesex County. 
Here he received his early education, 
and afterwards attended London Gram 
mar School and private schools. He 
commenced life as a farmer and con 
tinued that \ocation until the age of 
twentv-eight. when he commenced the 
stiulv of law with the late Janus 
Daniell, of London. In dm- time la- 
passed his examinations as attorney-at- 


law, and began his profession at St. 
Mary s in 1855. He remained tli 
until 1866, when he was appointed 
Clerk of the County Court by the late 
Sir John A. Macdonald. He then re 
moved to Stratford, and has since occu 
pied that honorable position as well as 
the other important offices mentioned 
above. Mr. MacFadden is an adherent 
of the Presbyterian Church. He be 
longs to the MascmiC Brotherhood, being 

a Past Master of St. James I.&lt; 
Mary s, and a chaplin of Stratford 
I.odge for many ; H a mar 

ried January luth, I.SM.I. to Catherine 
A. McLean, of P.rockville. 


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REDERICK HERBERT LAING, 
of Windsor, Ont., son of the late 
Alfred Laing, of Cambeswell, 
Eng., was born in Toronto in the 3 - ear 
1856. He received his early education 
in London, and continued it at Port 
Hope. He afterwards attended the 
Detroit College of Medicine one year. 
In 1875 he passed successfully in the 
School of Pharmacy. He then com 
menced business with, the late Thomas 
C. Sutton, where he remained a number 
of years, when he was taken into the. 
business as a partner. After this for 
some time he carried 011 business alone. 
In 1887 he entered into partnership 


with H. O. Fleming, and the firm is 
now doing a successful business, run 
ning two stores in Windsor and doing 
a large wholesale trade. Mr. Laing in 
religion is an Episcopalian, and is 
church warden. Since 1885 he has 
been senior lieutenant in the 2ist Essex 
Fusiliers. He belongs to the I.O.O.F., 
and also to the A.O.U.W. He has 
been agent of the Canada Life Assur 
ance Company for ten years, and is 
secretary-treasurer of the Dominion 
Building and Loan Company. He was 
married on the 23rd of January, iSSu. 
to Edith J. I)., daughter of the "late W. 
Benson, Collector of Customs, Windsor. 


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KY. STEPHEN BOXD, King 
Street Methodist Churcli, Lon- 
don, Out., was born 6th of 
1 )eceinber, 1837, at St. George, Out. 
Ik- received his education at the public 
schools and by private study. He ob- 
taint-d a second-class certificate at the 

of seventeen, on which he taught 
school for a time. In 1856 he was 
received on probation in the old 
\Vcsleyan Conference. Before ordina 
tion he travelled the following circuits: 

Mary s, Mitchell, ( .oderich and 
Stratford. He was ordained in 1860, 
and since has served the church at 
\Yoodstoc , etown, Gait, Franklin 


Centre, Que., Mount Forest, Out., 
Wellington, Kemptville, Farmersvilk, 
Pakenham, Ganauoqne, Stanstead, One. . 
and Montreal Fifth Church. Mr. Bond 
has been secretary and financial secre 
tary of Districts, chairman of the Stand- 
A District and secretary of the Mout- 
: Conference. He was a re 
tative of the General C)iiferenceo&lt; iS^s. 
6 and 1890. He took a lead 
ing part iu the advo Methodist 
I nion. Mr. 1 ond was married on 

ii of June. to Jane, daughter 

of i nderson. Esq., of Ki-ni])t- 

viV Tlu-y have a fanii 
children. 


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ROBT. BOLLERT, merchant, 
Guelph, Ont., was born Julj- gth, 1850, 
at Suhl, Germany, his parents being 
natives of that country. He received his edu 
cation at the public schools of Waterloo, Ont. 
At an early age he entered a general store 
as clerk, where he remained seven years. He 
then went to Kansas, U.S.A., where he re 
mained three years. After this he returned to 
Canada and started business in Harriston, 
Out., which he carried on for six years. In 
1879 he removed to Guelph, and started a dry 
goods business, which he still carries on exten 
sively in all its branches. Mr. Bollert is a 
member of the Methodist Church, and has for 
eight years been a delegate to the Annual 
Conference. lie is also a member of the 
Onarterly Board, and for a number of yean 
has been Sunday School Superintendent. H&lt; 
has been a member of the School Board for 
four years, is president of the Guclph Kraneh 
of the Dominion Building ^ Loan Association, 
and connected with other institutions. He is 
also a member of the Toronto Hoard of Trade. 
In politics he is an active Reformer. 


|KY. ALEXANDER CORBETT, In 
cumbent Designate of the Church 
of the Ascension, Paisley, Ont., 
was born in Wexford County, Ireland, on the 
gth of November, 1852. Having received his 
early education at the local primary schools, 
he entered in 1869 the Church of Ireland 
Educational Institute, Dublin. Graduating in 
1X72, he engaged in tutorial work till 1877, 
when he entered St. Bees Theological College, 
Cumberland, Eng. Having returned to Ire 
land, lie, in 1X79, entered upon evangelistic 
work under the auspices of the National 
Church. Resolving to take holy orders, he 
removed to Liverpool in 18X4 in order to 
qualify himself in practical pastoral work, 
and to this end he engaged as lay assistant 
in the important parish of St. Clement. 
Mr. Corbett arrived in Canada in iSSg. 
but, before locating, he undertook a live 
month s missionary tour through the States of 
Wyoming and Idaho. Returning the follow 
ing year, he was ordained by the Right Rev. 
M. S. Baldwin, D.D., and appointed to his late 
incumbencN , St. John s Church, Duiidalk. 


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, REDBRICK WILLIAM SCHWBNDI- 
MAXN, Drayton, (Jut., was l&gt;orn on 
March 23rd, 1852, in Waterloo town 
ship, County of Waterloo. His parents were 
natives of Switzerland and came to Canada in 
1850. He was educated at the public school 
of Waterloo County. In early life he learned 
the carpenter trade, at which he worked nw 
various places for a number of years. In 1878 
he removed to Drayton, where he began opera 
tions as a builder and contractor, manufacturer 
of doors, sashes, etc., carrying on an extensive 
business. He has built many churches and 
&gt;&lt;&gt;! houses throughout the country. He 
built the Agricultural College building, 
(tuelph. and additions to the London and 
Hamilton asylums. In 1884, in company 
with W. H. \Vhaley, Esq., Mr. Schwendimann 
founded a private bank. He has been a mem 
ber of the Town Council for several years, and 
reeve in issy and 1890. In religion he is 
a I Rbyterian, ami is a respected and influen 
tial c-iti/i-ii. He i-- president of tin M 
Institute of Drayton. He was married July 
lst M--^ Margan-I Mt-ldruin. 


*l RTHfR HENRY HARRIS. L.D.S., 
2 \ Toronto, was lx&gt;rn in Yorkshire, 
^^ Eng., on the 2oth of August, 
1865. His father is the Rev. Henry Harris, 
Methodist minister, Toronto. He was edu 
cated at the public schools of Toronto and the 
Guelph Grammar School. After matriculating 
in dentistry, he entered the dental office of J. 
H. Clarke, Kingston, in 1882, where he pre 
pared for the Royal College of Dental Sur 
geons, Toronto, which he entered in 1883, 
and from which he graduated in 1886. On 
the completion of his course, he l&gt;egan to prac 
tice in Toronto, where he has already gaiiu-il 
a very large and growing connection. I &gt;i . 
Harris is a member of a musical family, 
and is an accomplished violinist. He take- 
great interest in athletic sports, and is president 
: he well known Riverdale CrU-kct Club 
of Toronto, He is in jxilitu-s a Conservative, 
and takes an active part in election rout 
H&lt;- :\}- belongs to the IndejH-ndent Order 
of ( )dd Fellows. i : married in i 

to Jane, daughter of the late Thomas T-iylor, 
m.-intifartiirer, Toronto. 


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K. SNIDER, 
familiarly known 
as Conductor Snider, was 
born on the ist of March, 
1852, in Trafalgar township, 
Count} of Halton, Out. 
He was educated at the 
public schools, the Grammar 
School, Guelph, and at 
Walker s Academy, of that 
city. At a very early age 
he commenced his railway 
career as a newsboy on the 
late Great Western Railway, 
and has occupied the posi 
tions of brakesman , baggage 
man, freight train conductor, 
and for many years past 
that of passenger conductor, 
all of which he filled with 
satisfaction to the railway 
company and pleasure to the 
travelling public. Although 
born of Godly parents, and 
nurtured in a Christian 
home, he led a wordly life 
for many years after com 
mencing work as a railway 
man, but his wife, being a 
Christian, ceased not during 
all this time to pray for the 
conversion of her husband, 
and, after eleven years of patient wait 
ing and pleading before God, Conductor 
Snider responded to the Spirit s call, 
was converted, and commenced his now 
well-known career of usefulness. His 
con version was most genuine. AYith him 
old things did indeed pass away and all 
things became new. He never grows 
weary of speaking in public or private 
of this, the greatest event of his life, 
and especially desires that this sketch 
shall give all possible prominence to 
this crowning blessing, for he is not 
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which 
has been the power of God unto his 
salvation. Krom that memorable morn- 


ing in his own home in the town of 
Palmerston, when he took upon him 
the Master s yoke, until now, he has 
not ceased to tell "the old, old story," 
with marked effect. The Comluctor 
has occupied the pulpits of the largest 
churches in Methodism from Windsor 
to Montreal, and many are the trophies 
that have been won for Christ as a 
result of his earnest and pungent ap 
peals. The G.T.K. have courteously 
arranged his route so that he can -ive 
all possible time to evangelistic work. 
Mr. Snider was married February i/Uh, 
iS-6, to Miss Charlotte Milne, daughter 
of Thos. Milne, of Fergus, ( &gt;nt. 


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^f LLEN CLEGHORX, Brantford, 
X~\ Out., was born on the 28th of 
^^ December, 1822, in Edin 
burgh, Scotland. He l^egan his educa 
tion in the schools of his native land, 
and coining to Canada when eight years 
of age, completed his education at the 
boarding school of the Rev. Dr. Black, 
Montreal. On leaving school, he en 
tered the wholesale establishment of 
Messrs. Colin C. Ferric & Co., Hamil 
ton. Mr. C leghorn came to Brantford 
in 1847 and commenced the hardware 
business first in retail, and afterwards 
in both wholesale and retail. He did 
the lending trade until I.S7-S, when lie 


sold out and retired. He 
has been one of the most 
useful public men in the 
city, as councillor, chairman 
of si-ln &lt;&gt;! boards, and in 
many other offices. He has 
also been chairman of the 
Board of License Commis 
sioners for many years. 
He was a director of the 
Buffalo, Brantford & Code- 
rich Railway, and assisted 
in the organization of the 
Buffalo & Lake Huron 
Railway, of which he was 
four years director, and for 
two years managing direc 
tor. He was also an active 
promoter of the Interna 
tional Bridge, between Fort 
Erie and Buffalo. Mr. 
Cleghorn began the move 
ment for the erection of the 
" Brant " monument, which 
now stands in Victoria Park, 
acknowledged to be one of 
the finest works of art on 
the continent, and with 
which his name is associated 
forall timetocome. Asorigi- 
nator of the Brant monument 
he was presented by the 
Brant Memorial Association with an 
address and purse. He was also in 
strumental in the restoration of the old 
Mohawk Church, for which services, at 
a meeting of the Indian tribes, he was 
made a real chief and named u Karawi- 
ho" or "Good News." Mr. Cleghorn 
is a nephew of John Allen, MI), a 
litterateur Q{ considerable talent, mas 
of Dnlwich College, and a prominent 
contributor to the Edinburgh l\ 
whose portrait, by .in Landsccr. 

is now in the National Portrait (iallery. 

:h Kensington. Eng. In ; 
he is a Reformer, and in religion a 
11. 


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\\ y J. CHARLTON, M.D., of 
* * Weston, Out., was born on 
March 24th, 1856, at Downsview, York 
township. His father is John Charlton, 
of \Yestou, one of the early settlers in 
that section. The subject of our sketch 
commenced his education at the public 
school of Cooksville, and continued it 
at the High School, Streetsville. In 
1874 and 1875 he attended Toronto 
University, and, leaving there, he at 
tended the School of Medicine four 
years. He received the degrees of 
M.I), at Toronto University, and M.D., 
C.M., at Victoria University, and 
M.C.P.S. Ontario. He spent 1880 and 


1 88 1 as House Surgeon in the General 
Hospital, Toronto. In 1882 he com 
menced his profession at Weston, where 
he has remained since. lie has been 
most successful in his practice, which 
is constantly increasing, and makes 
him one of the busiest men of the 
town. Dr. Charlton in religion is a 
Methodist, and is recording steward of 
the Circuit. In politics he is a Conser 
vative. He is coroner for York County. 
He belongs to the Masonic Brother 
hood, I. &lt;).&lt; ).! ., and various other fra 
ternal organizations. He was married 
June 24th, 1885, to Annie, daughter of 
S. McNally, banker, Hanover. 


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&gt;EY. FATHER JOHN JOSEPH 
McENTEE, parish priest of 

^s Port Colborne and \Yelland, 
Out., was born in Rochester, N.Y., 
I .S.A., in the year 1847. Father 
McEntee received his education at St. 
Michael s College, Toronto, which he 
entered in 1860, and the Grand Semi 
nary, Montreal, in 1867. He was or 
dained i&gt;riest October iSth, 1870, in 
St. Michael s Cathedral, Toronto, by 
Archbishop Lynch, being the first 
priest ordained by His Grace after 
he became Archbishop. He was first 
appointed assistant at St. Paul s, To 
ronto. November ist, where he remained 


four months, after which he filled the 
Thorold appointment for eight months, 
when he again returned as assistant to 
St. Paul s. In March, 1872, he vas 
appointed parish priest of Dixie, when 
he remained five years, when he was 
transferred to Uxbridge. In October, 
1X77, he received charge of the parish 
of Oshawa and Whitby, where he re 
mained over twelve years. Hi- was 
then transferred on January 241)1, 1890, 
to his present charge. Port Colborne 
and \Velland. During his ministry he 
has paid off about $20,000 parochial 
debts. He is chairman of the School 
rd in Port Colborne. 


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OHN BUTLER JONES, of 
Niagara Falls, Out., was born 
June 28th, 1818, at Gibraltar. 
II is father was Color-Sergeant John 
Butler Jones, of the i4th Foot, who 
served in the battle of Waterloo. Mr. 
Jones received his education at a private 
school in Reading, Kng., and at a 
boarding school at Feversham, Eng. 
At the age of fourteen he was appren 
ticed to the- plastering trade-, and after 
wards to that of bricklaying. He then 
carried on business as a builder in 
Kngland. Coming to Canada in 1854 
he settled at Niagara Falls, where he 
engaged in the same trade. In 1879 lie 


commenced the manufacture of brick, 
which he still carries on extensively. 
He was two years a Councillor and fonr 
years a \Yater Commissioner. He was 
for five years respectively in the volun 
teer force and in the fire brigades. He 
was also a member of the band for 
several years. Mr. Jones belongs to 
the Church of England, and has been 
Church Warden since 1889. In politics 
he is a Conservative. He was married 
December i2th, 1841, to Kli/abeth 
Jones, and after her death he married 
Elixabeth Ann Cook, whose mother 
was the first white female child born at 
Cjueenston, Out. 


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JAS. THOMPSON GARROW, 
Q.C., Goderich, Out., was born 
at Chippewa, \Yelland County, 
Ont., on the nth of March, 1843. His 
father was a farmer, and Mr. Garrow 
in early life had the usual experience 
of farmer s sons in early settlements of 
( hitario before the age of railways. 
He received his education at the public 
schools and Goderich High School. 
Ik- afterwards studied law in the office 
of Judge Toms, of Goderich, and was 
admitted solicitor in May, iShS, bar 
rister in November. 1869, and was ap 
pointed O.C. in October, 1885. Mr. 
Garrow is senior partner of the firm of 


Garrow & Proudfoot, which comma: 
a large practice in Goderich and the 
County of Huron. He was reeve of 
the town from 1874 to 1880, and warden 
of the county in 1880, and was elected 
as a Reformer to represent \\Y^t I Ir. 
in the Local Legislature in 1890. IK 
is deservedly popular, and, while in&lt; 
and retiring in manner, is fully posted 
on all matters pertaining to the wel: 
of his community and country. Mr. 

row was married to Mary, daughl 
of the Rev. Charles Fletcl: 
Goderich, on the i;th of July. 
He [a a member of Knox 1 K -" } 

Church. 


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JT LEX. MILLARD, 

JZ~\ undertaker, 347 
V Yonge street, To 
ronto, is a descendant of 

a Welsh family, who, in the 

year 1620, emigrated with 

the " Pilgrim Fathers" to the 

United States. In 1805 his 

great-grandfather, Timothy 

Millard, who was residing 

in Pennsylvania, emigrated 

to Canada and settled where 

the town of Newmarket now 

is, and built the first frame 

house there. The subject of 

our sketch was born at New 
market, Out., on March 9th, 

1852. He is the second son 

of Joseph Millard, J.P., oi 

that town, who has been in 
the furniture and undertak 
ing business there for many 
years. He received his 
education at Newmarket 
and at Toronto Business 
College. At the age of 
eighteen he took a position 
in his father s business, and 
in 1873 was admitted into 
partnership. In December, 
1880, he retired from the 
firm of Millard & Co. and 
started business in Newmarket on his 
own account. There he remained until 

1884, when he removed to Toronto to 
assume the position of assistant to the 
late John Young, and remained with 
him until his death in 1885. He then 
purchased the business of his late em 
ployer, and carries it on still under the 
name of John Young. Mr. Millard has 
made a special study of the art of em- 
brilming, and is thoroughly posted in 
all the most approved methods for the 
care and preservation of the dead. At 
the same time he has not lost sight of the 
importance of having all work done on 
thoroughly sanitary principles. Since 


the organization of the Undertaker s 
Association of Ontario, he has always 
taken an active part in the work of the 
same, and in 1889 was elected one of 
three members of the legislative com 
mittee of the Association, and still holds 
that position, and in 1890 was placed 
on the Board of Examiners of the above 
Association. In 1890, and again in 
1891, he was elected president of the 
City Undertaker s Association, which 
office he filled with marked ability. In 
the latter year was appointed on the 
committee to establish a School of 
Organic Chemistry and Embalming in 
the citv of Toronto. 


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IEV. JOSEPH WILD, M.A., 
I).D., Toronto, was born on 
- z November i6th, 1834, at 
Summit, Lancashire, England. He re 
ceived his early education in England 
in the Methodist College, and com 
pleted his theological course at Con 
cord, New Hampshire, U.S.A. He 
began active life as apprentice to civil 
engineering, at which he worked three 
years, when he decided to enter the 
ministry and gave himself up to study. 
( )n January i6th, 1850, he was licensed 
to preach in the Primitive Methodist 
Church of England, with which bodv 
he remained five years, until his com- 


ing to Canada in 1855. He 
then joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and was 
first stationed at Hamilton. 
After this he again attended 
college, taking advanced 
studies in theology. After 
graduating, he preached at 
Goderich for one year, and 
then spent a year travelling 
on the continent of Europe. 
On his return he was sta 
tioned at Orono and Belle 
ville, remaining in the latter 
place nine years. Here, in 
addition to the work of the 
pastor, he acted as professor 
of Oriental Languages in 
Albert College. From Belle 
ville he went to Brooklyn, 
N.Y., where he joined the 
Congregational denomina 
tion, and, after remaining 
there eight years, he ac 
cepted a call to the Bond 
Street Church, Toronto, 
where he has now been 
eleven years. His labors 
in Toronto have been at 
tended with great success. 
The church has now a mem 
bership of over eight hun 
dred, and is largely attended, especially 
in the evening services, when Dr. Wild s 
eloquence attracts numbers from all 
parts of the city. As a lecturer and 
platform speaker he is as popular as in 
the pulpit. He was chairman of the 
Congregational Union in Canada for 
1889 and 1890, and takes an active in 
terest in all matters appertaining to 
the denomination. Dr. Wild was mar 
ried August I5th, 1859, to Mary 
Victoria Hixson, of Bronte, ( &gt;nta: 
Dr. Wild s Sunday evening sermons 
are published weekly in the A&lt;];-it&gt;: 
and have a very large circulation in 
&lt; hitario. 


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\ \ WILLIAM MCCABE, LL.B., of 

Toronto, Fellow of the Insti 
tute of Actuaries of Great Britain and 
Ireland, London, Eng., Fellow of the 
Statistical Society of Great Britain, 
was born at Picton, Out., in 1841. He 
was educated at the Grammar School, 
and applied himself with such per 
sistent energy that, at a very early age, 
he obtained a certificate. So successful 
was he in the teaching profession, that 
he soon occupied the position of princi 
pal &gt;f one of the leading high schools 
in the Dominion, and was elected presi 
dent of the Provincial Teachers As 
sociation. Manv gentlemen occupy 


prominent positions in 
Canada were students under 
him. While teaching, he 
gave considerable attention 
to law, and spent some time 
in one of the leading offices 
in Toronto, and also took 
the LL.B. degree. He then 
turned his attention to the 
higher branches of mathe 
matics, studying under Prof. 
Cherriman, AV!IO was the 
first superintendent of in 
surance in Canada. Becom 
ing greatly interested in life 
insurance, the subject of 
our sketch removed to the 
United States to follow that 
profession, and in a short 
time was promoted to super 
intendent of agencies of a 
prominentcompany. In 1870 
he returned to Canada to 
take the management of the 
Confederation Life. After 
spending three years in that 
position and starting that 
company on its successful 
career, he resigned and spent 
some time travelling abroad. 
After receiving further 
honors and degrees in Eng 
land, he returned to Canada, and is now 
managing-director of the North Ameri 
can Life Assurance Company, Toronto, 
which ranks among the leading sub 
stantial and trustworthy companies in 
Canada. Mr. McCabe" has been con 
nected wuh many prominent institu 
tions in Toronto, among others having 
been president of the Institute of Char 
tered Accountants of Ontario, besides 
being a Fellow. In religion he is an 
Episcopalian. He is a Mason of hjo], 
standing, having received his ;_&gt;nd 
degree, and is Past District Deputy 
Grand Master of the Grand Lod.^e of 
Canada. 


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[HK I.ATK TOIIX H. 
STRATFORD was 
born May i^th, jS.jo, ;it 
Oswego, N.Y.,died at Brant- 
ford, Out., February 12th, 
1888. He moved to Brant- 
ford at an (.-arlvage with his 
parents, and until his death 
made that city his home, 
contributing largely to its 
wonderful prosperity. He 
received his education at 
Brautford s original Gram 
mar School under Mr. 
Tyner. After leaving school 
he went to Montreal to com 
plete his education with the 
old established firm of 
Messrs. Carter, Kerry & 
Co., wholesale druggists. 
Returning to Brantford, he 
took charge of his father s 
retail drug business, which 
eventually developed into an 
extensive wholesale trade. 
In the year 1869 he retired 
to give place to his brothers, 
Joseph and Charles, and 
entered into partnership 
with Mr. Henry Yates under 
the title of Messrs. Yates ^^^V 
& Stratford. This firm did 
for years an enormous business with 
many of the railways and largest cor 
porations in the country. In connection 
with Messrs. Nicholson & Chisholm 
(Stratford, Nicholson & Chisholm), the 
entire Air Line of the G.W.R. from 
Simcoe to Glencoe was completed. The 
contract price was $900,000, and the 
work was finished in nine months. 
After this he spent some years in Europe 
to recuperate his health. On return 
ing to Canada he identified himself with 
certain large interests, and continued 
in active business to the time of his 
death. In the year iSS^ he erected a 
monument to his memory that will 


never be forgotten, and placed Brant- 
ford under a great debt of gratitude, in 
the erection and donation to the city of 
the John H. Stratford Hospital. This 
is a beautiful and substantial edifice, 
erected upon an elevation overlooking 
the city, furnished and fully equipped 
with the latest appurtenances constitut 
ing a modern hospital. Since its open 
ing in February, iSS^, by Lieuteiiant- 
vernor Rohin^on, it has proved an 
unspeakable blessing to the city and to 
the County of Brant as well. Mr. 
.Stratford was married in iS6S t" 
Jusoii Harris, of Toronto, who still 
survives him. 


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OSHPH E. H. STRATFORD, 
Glenhyrst, Brant ford, Out., 
born in that city on Septembcr 
2nd, 1847. He is a son" of the late W. 
H. Stratford, for many years one of 
Hrantford s leading wholesale mer 
chants. Mr. Stratford received his edu 
cation at tlie public schools Brantford, 
but the business instinct seems to have 
been born in him, and his father took 
him from school at the early age of 
thirteen, making him one of his com 
mercial travellers. For twenty-two 
years Joseph was on the mad, and did 
a s^reat deal toward building up the ex 
tensive business of the house. In 1869 


he succeeded his brother, 
John H., in the management 
of his father s business. In 
the year 1875 his father re 
tired, leaving the entire busi 
ness in his hands, and it has 
so continued. In addition to 
his large wholesale drug 
business, Mr. Stratford has 
had other outlets for his 
energies. He holds the posi 
tion of captain and quarter 
master iu 38th Battalion 
Dufferiu Rifles, is a mem 
ber of Doric Masonic Lodge 
121, Sons of England Salis 
bury Lodge 42, and Ancient 
Order United Workmen No. 
71. In 1881 he built the 
beautiful structure known 
as Stratford s Opera House, 
a perfect gem of architec 
tural beauty. He also took 
over single-handed Brant- 
ford Curling and Skating 
Rink, an acre of ice under 
cover, systematizing and 
making one of the finest 
rinks in America. Both of 
1 these enterprises were subse 
quently organized into joint 
stock companies, of which 
he has ever since been the president. 
At the death of his brother, he succeed 
ed to the Board of Managers of the 
John H. Stratford Hospital for life, a 
position generally acknowledged well 
held. Since that time he has been an 
nually elected president of the Board. 
He is now (1891) retiring from mercan 
tile business, being interested in three 
of the largest stock farms in Ontario. 
Mr. Stratford married, May 24, 1881, 
Mary E. Killmastcr, daughter of B. 
Killmaster, Esq., of Port Rowan, and 
with their six children they occupy that 
beautiful home, known as " Glenhyrst," 
about \ l /2 miles from the citv. 


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,KY. J.S. WILLIAM 
SON, Oakville, Out., 
^s an ex-president 

of Niagara Conference, was 

born July 3rd, 1842, in the 

township of Darlington, 

Durham County. He re 
ceived his -education at the 

public school of Ontario 

and at Albert College, Belle 
ville. He was converted in 

1856 and immediately united 

with the M. E. Church. In 

1865 he was licensed as a 

local preacher and appointed 

by Bishop Smith to preach 

on a circuit under Dr. 

Webster as presiding elder. 

He was ordained deacon at 

Lambeth in 1867 by Bishop 

Richardson, and ordained 

elder at London in 1869 by 

Bishop Smith. Previous to 

being ordained elder, he 

travelled the following cir 
cuits: Brant, Ingersoll, Yar 
mouth and Seaforth. Since 

that time he has served, 

with great acceptability, the 

church at London, Hamil 
ton, Brantford, Hamilton 

again, serving the same 

church eight years in all, Norwich, 
Paris and Oakville, his present charge. 
In 1882 he was appointed presiding 

elder of Hamilton District, which posi- 
tion he held until the Methodist union 
in 1884. Since the union he has been 
chairman of the Norwich, Brantford 
and Milton districts, was president 
Niagara Conference for 1889, was secre 
tary in 1886, and has been a member 
of every General Conference since he 
became eligible for election. He has 
been a member of the Board of Alma 
liege since its inception, is a member 
of the General Conference Special 
Committee. Superannuation Board and 


General Board of Missions. He was 
also minute secretary of the Provincial 
Sunday School Association in 1^75. 
Mr. Williamson is an earnest and able 
preacher, an energetic and successful 
pastor, and an efficient church official. 
In audition to his ministerial work and 
numerous offices, he has been much on 
the lecture platform, where he is v 
popular. He is now in the full vi 
and prime of manhood, and in 

labors abundant. He has been t-. 
married first, on March i;,th, iS66, t.. 
Lucy Mnlholland, of Troy, and. 
May .Jth, I*;.}, to Ada A., daughter of 
the late Dr. Wolverton. of Hamilton. 


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J 


OSEPH WHITEHEAD, retired 
railway contractor and ex- 
mayor of Clinton, Ont, was 
born in 1814 at Guisbro, Yorkshire, 
England. Mr. Whitehead had few ad 
vantages of education, having been 
sent to work at a very early age. He 
was at first employed on a railway, and 
was fireman on the first engine that 
ever ran. That was the historic engine 
designed by George Stephenson, which 
made its first run on the Stockton and 
Darlington Railroad on the 2jth of 
September, 1825. Mr. Whitehead left 
England for Scotland in 1846, having 
a contract with the Caledonian Railway, 


and then came to Canada in 1849, when 
he was engaged in the construction 
of the G.W.R. He built a section of 
the road west of Copetown, and another 
west of London. In 1853 he contracted 
for the building of the Buffalo, Brant- 
ford and Goderich Railroad. The com 
pany failing, work was suspended until 
a new company was formed under a 
special act of parliament, and Mr. 
Whitehead given the contract for the 
road from Buffalo to Goderich. At 
Confederation, in 1867, he was elected 
to parliament and represented North 
Huron five years. He then spent nine 
years in Manitoba, and built sixty-four 
miles of road from the 
national boundary to "Win 
nipeg, and twenty -two miles 
from Winnipeg to Selkirk. 
In 1877 he took the contract 
to furnish and la}- the ties 
and ballast the road from 
Selkirk to Cross Lake, and 
for the construction of the 
road from Cross Lake to 
Rat Portage. Having had 
the honor of being engaged 
on the first locomotive run 
in England, he took the 
first engine into Manitoba 
in 1878, taking it by boat 
from Fisher s Landing down 
the Red River to St. Boni 
face. Mr. Whitehead was 
the first reeve of Clinton, 
and held the office ten years. 
He is the only surviving 
member of the first town 
council. He was mayor 
three years, declining t&lt;&gt; 
serve longer. In religion 
IK- is a Methodist. He has 
been married three times. 
By his first wife lie had six 
children, who are now oc 
cupying important profes 
sional positions. 


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IKY. JAS. &lt; .&lt;&gt;!&lt; DON FOOTK, 
/ainsville. Out., was born on 
the 1 5th March. iN.jS, in the 
township of Stanley, Comity of Huron. 
He received his primary education at 
the common schools of his native 
county. He then attended the College 
for Young Men at Dundas, and finally 
concluded his course at Yict 
University. He began life on his 
father s farm, and at an early age 
engaged as clerk in a general store, 
where he was successful, and finally 
became manager. At the age of twenty- 
six he was converted to God, and im 
mediately gave up business to prepare 
for the niinistr}-, realizing a 
special call to that work. 
He entered upon the sacred 
calling as a probationer in 
1876, and filled appoint 
ments at Bervie and Dor 
chester, then attended Co- 
bonrg College for two years, 
and received ordination hi 
Brantford in 1881, after 
which he was stationed at 
Port Colborne, St. Cathar 
ines third, Troj , Oakland, 
and at the Conference in 
June, 1891, was appointed 
to Cainsville, his present 
charge. His entire minis 
try has been marked by 
an increase in spirituality, 
membership and finances. 
Among the many monu 
ments of his energy, may 
be noted the beautiful 
church built at Bealton, on 
the ( )akland Circuit, in 
1890, the total cost of $5,000 
being provided at the open 
ing services. I le is in every 
sense of the word a preacher, 
l&gt;eing d of a good 

physique, he presents a 
pleasing pulpit appear- 


ance, and by his untiring energy in 
the presentation of his helpful and 
practical add; -oinmands the at 

tention of his hearers. But it is in 
evangelistic services where his powcr 
aud tact are seen to best advani 
gracious seasons of revival have at 
tended his full ministry. He is an 
ardent and fearless prohibitionist, and 
did grand work in Scott Act con! 
in Welland and Lincoln counties, and 
against the repeal movement in Brant, 
and led to victor}- in the late struggle 
for local option in the township of 
Oakland. Mr. Foote is married and 
has one child living. 


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E. HAWKE, M.D., 
Stratford, Out., was born on 
the i3th of April, 1866, at 
Hawkesville, Out., the place being 
named after his father. He received 
his education at the Hawkesville public 
school and Berlin High School, where 
he obtained a second-class teacher s 
certificate. He then entered Trinity 
College, Toronto, and commenced his 
medical training. In 1887 he graduated 
M.I)., C.M., taking honors all through 
his course. After graduating he en 
tered the hospitals of New York to 
further perfect himself in his profes 
sion. After this he commenced to 


practice at Wellesley, where he built 
up a large business, which he subse 
quently sold out, and then spent some 
months travelling through the Western 
States. Returning to Ontario in 1889, 
he settled at Stratford, where he enjoys 
the confidence of the people and has a 
growing practice. Dr. Hawke is an 
adherent of the Methodist Church, is a 
member of the I.O.O.F., C.O.F., 
A.O.T.W.. K.O.T.M., Select Knights 
and other societies. He is examining 
physician for each of these societies, and 
examiner for the Dominion Life, Ontario 
Mutual, Sun Life, London and Lanca 
shire and other life assurance companies. 


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()HN ELGIN TOM, Inspector 
of Public Schools, Goderich, 
&lt; )nt., was born in Darlington, 
Durham County, on the igtli October, 
1852, of English parents. In 1853 his 
parents moved to S. S. No. 5, Usborne, 
County of Huron, where he received 
his public school education. At the 
Normal School, Toronto, in 1871, he 
obtained a second-class certificate. In 
1X75, returning to the Normal School, 
he obtained a first-class grade "A" &gt; 
tific.i! -. Hf \vas then appointed princi 
pal of the MI public school, 
which he : ;&gt;t the position 
of science master in St. Mary s Colle- 


giate Institute in January, 1877. He 
remained ill St. Mary s until July, 1885. 
when he was appointed science master 
in Strathroy Collegiate Institute, and 
in January, 1886, was made Inspector 
of Schools for West Huron and ( .ode- 
rich. Mr. Tom is a member of the 

sbyterian Church, a Liberal-Con- 
vativc in politics, a Select Councillor ot 
the Royal Templars of Temperance 
and a member of the I. O.O.I- . He was 
married in August, iS;n, to Miss M 
I.. H.iynes, who died in June, i" 
i again March 2-Sth. iSSS. to May 
.laughter of James I)ieks .n. Regis 
trar of Huron County. 


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V. FRANCIS 
E. NUGENT, 
_ Mitchell, Out., 
was born on the 2ist of 
November, 1842, at Tyrone, 
County of Durham, Out. 
He received such an educa 
tion as the public schools of 
his day afforded, and after 
wards prosecuted study by 
himself. He worked on his 
father s farm until eighteen 
years of age, when he went 
to work at the lumber busi 
ness in a saw-mill. In 1865 
he was converted, and almost 
immediately felt called to 
the sacred ministry. The 
church, recognizing his gifts 
and graces, gave him a 
license as a local preacher. 
In 1867 he joined the New 
Connexion Conference on 
probation. He successfully 
passed his examinations 
with honors and was or 
dained in 1871 at Owen 
Sound. Before ordination 
he travelled the following 
circuits : Millbrook, Erin 
and Waterford, being two 
years at the latter place. 
Since ordination he has ministered to Miss Anna Graham, of Bethany, and 
the churches at Milford, Goderich, again, on May i3th, 1891, to Miss 
Harmony, Bayham, Hespeler, Berlin, Celina Graham, his first wife s sister. 
Lucknow, Listowel and Mitchell, his He is a pronounced temperance advo- 
present charge. Previous to the union cate, is a member of the society of the 
of the Methodist churches, Mr. Nugent Sons of Temperance, and was "Deputy 
was secretary of District in the New Grand Worthy Patriarch for several 
Connexion Church, and since the union years. At the Guelph Conference in 
has been chairman of District, and also 1891 he was elected to represent the 
financial secretary of District for a Conference at the World s Temperance 
number of years. He has been a Convention to be held in Chicago in 
member of the Stationing Committee 1892. He is energetic in all church 
continuously since 1886, and was a work, is a sound preacher, and is be- 
member of the General Conference of loved by his people. He has a family 
1890. Mr. Nugent has been twice of five "children two sons and three 
married first, on June i;th, 1871, to daughters. 


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KTHUR RICH D. DENISON, 
architect, 20 King street West, 

^ Toronto, was born on the 
25th January, 1856, at " Dovcrcourt," 
Toronto. He is a son of the late 
Colonel Richard Denison and Maria 
Hepburne Denison. His father was 
an English officer, and his mother was 
a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. The 
subject of our sketch received his edu 
cation at the Upper Canada ColU 
Toronto. He afterwards attended a 
military school for one year. In the 
; r 1^72 he began the study of 
architecture with the late John &lt; 
Howard, and subsequently with Walter 


R. Strickland and Joseph 
Connolly. In r be 

came a partner in the firm 
of James cc Co., which part 
nership existed for two 
.rs, at which time lie 
an business on his own 
account. In 1883 he en 
tered into partnership with 
George A. Stewart, the firm 
being known as Stewart & 
Denison, architects and sur 
veyors. In addition to the 
office in Toronto, thej- also 
had a branch office in Win 
nipeg, Man. In 1885 Mr. 
Stewart received the ap 
pointment of Government 
Engineer at Banff, N.W.T., 
and the partnership was 
dissolved. In 1890 he en 
tered into partnership with 
Win. King, the firm being 
known as Denison & King. 
Mr. Denison has built man} 
of the chief public and pri 
vate buildings in the city of 
Toronto. He is architect 
for the Dominion Govern 
ment for Toronto district, 
and he is also architect for 
the Board of Police and tin- 
Free Library Board. For four years 
he was a member of the Public School 
Board, Toronto, and also a member of 
the Toronto Board of Health. In reli 
gion Mr. Denison is a member of the 
Church of England, and in politics is 
a Conservative. He is a member of 
the Masonic Brotherhood, and also 
the .Sons of England. 1 Ie was married 
on the I5th of June, iSSi, to M 
Helen Louisa Stewart, daughter 
A. Stewart, &lt; iovernnu-nt Engim 
Banff, X.W.T. Mr. 1 &gt;ciiison is making 
rapid ; in his n, and is 

evidently destined to take a lead 

position. 


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EV. JOHN MORTON, pastor of the First 
Congregational Church. Hamilton, Out., 
was born at Carmunnock, Lanark 
shire, Scotland. He was educated at the parish 
schools of Carmunnock, Cathcart and Busby, 
Scotland, and at the common school. County of 
Oxford, Ontario, the Grammar School, Wood 
stock, and afterwards at Glasgow University and 
Evangelical Union Theological Hall, Scotland. 
He emigrated to Canada with his parents when 
in his seventeenth year. Mr. Morton was or 
dained at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1869, and in the 
following year became pastor of the Evangelical 
Union Church, Dalkeith, Scotland, where he re 
mained eleven years, and in 1880 accepted a call 
to Falkirk. In 1881 he came to Canada, when 
he received a call to the First Congregational 
Church, Hamilton, where he has remained ever 
since and has been very successful. In 1888 he 
was chairman of the Congregational Union of 
Ontario and Quebec. He was married on the 
3rd of August, 1871, to Miss Agnes Pettigrew, 
of Blandford, Out. In this country, as 
in his native land, Mr. Morton is greatly 
beloved by both ministry and people. 


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OBERT ARMOUR BARROX. Principal 
of Georgetown High School, was born 
July 27th, 1850. ir. Glasgow, 
.Scotland. His parents were alsc natives of 
Scotland his father being from Morayshirc and 
his mother from Ayrshire. Principal Barron re 
ceived his education at the Public and High 
Schools, Waterdown, and at the Collegiate Insti 
tute, Hamilton. \Vhen fifteen years of age he 
moved with his parents to Muskoka, and the 
same year he opened a school in Bracebridgv. 
Out., and was the first teacher in Muskoka 
district. He afterwards graduated from Toronto 
University in 1881 with first-class honors in 
French and German, and subsequently obtained 
specialist standing in Classics, Modern Lan 
guages and English. After graduating lie was 
appointed assistant master of Renfrew High 
School. In 1883 he became head master at Port 
Dover, where he remained seven years. In t8qo 
he took charge of the Georgetown High School, 
and is now appointed Principal of Mi-aford High 
School. Mr. Barron is a Presbyterian, a member 
of the Sons of Scotland, and Associate Examiner 
of Toronto University 


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MEN 


CAXAI.V 


"HI 


&lt;T J KAI.M i is 


ALBERT JAMES RALSTON. 
1 son of Robert Ralston, 
Ksq., Hamilton, Out., was 
born in that city October izth, 1864. He re 
ceived his education at the Chestnut Academy, 
Hamilton, afterwards at the Rockwood Academy, 
near Guelph, and finally at the Canada Busings 
College, Hamilton. In 1880, when only sixteen 
years of age, he left college and served four years 
in the dry goods business to gain a thoroughly 
practical experience. In 1884 he left for Mi- 
chigan, where he remained until 1886 engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, and then returned to 
Hamilton, where he commenced the real estate 
business. In 1890 he entered into partnership 
with O. A. Homing as real estate brokers under 
the style of Horning & Ralston. They now 
have a very large connection both in the city 
and bvyond, and do a large business in the trans- 
; city and farm properties. In religion Mr. 
Uals .on is a Presbyterian and in politics a 
ket" inner. Ik was appointed in 1890 an issuer 
of marriage licenses. He was married on tlu- 
mber, 1889, to Jessamine (ionlon, 
eldest daughter of 1 . C. Allan, Toronto. 


ARRV BOXIS i: A H.,,,1 M 

::ishy High School, was horn in 
the township of r.shorm-. Huron 
CotmU Out., ill l86l, Hi- wax e.lui-ated at St. 
Mary s ColU-giaU- Institute-, and afterwards i-n 
tered University College. Toronto in i.x;,,. gain 
ing a scholarship in general profu-ienry at the 
University Matriculation Examination of that 
year. After spending two years at the Univer 
sity, he began fanning in the County of Perth, 
but finally resumed study, and graduated with 
honors in Classics in 1887. After spending a 
short time at the Normal Training School in 
Strathroy, he entered upon the profession of 
teaching as Classical Master in the High School 
at Orangeville. After spending two years there, 
he received and accepted the important appoint 
ment of Head Master of the Grimsby High 
School, which he still retains, and in which he 
has been most successful. He is making rapid 
strides towards the head of his profession, and 
judging from his past record, he will reach a 
first place quite early in life. In religion 
Mr. Bonis is a member of the Church of 
England. 


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305 


THOMAS B. GILLARD, 

^ burg, Out., was born in Hamp 
ton, County of Durham, Canada, in 
1845. He received a good common 
school education, and, at the age of 
twenty-one, he engaged in the lumber 
ing business in the township of Logan, 
County of Perth. He next engaged 
in the printing and publishing business 
in St. Mary s, which venture proved a 
failure and he lost every tiling. He 
then moved to Wallaceburg in 1870, 
where he now, as the senior member of 
the firm of Gillard & Riddel! , carries 
on a large and successful lumbering 
banking and real estate business. They 


are also engaged in the shipping trade. 
Mr. Gillard married, in 1875, Miss Klva 
Tsa Macdongall, daughter of Lachlan 
A. Macdougall. He has a family of 
one son and t\vo daughters. He is a 
public-spirited citizen, and has held 
high public offices in the town and 
county, which he has always filled witli 
credit to himself and advantage to the 
public. He has been reeve of Wallace- 
burg six years and warden of Kent 
County, vice-president of the Liberal- 
Conservative Association of Kent and 
Hothwell. He is a member of Pythian 
Lodge, Marmion No. 8, and also of the 
I.O.O.F. 


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MI.N 


CANADA 


T EOPOLD G. VAX EGMOND, of 
,1 Seaforth, Ont., was born there 
^^-^ September loth, 1852, son of 
A. G. Van Egmond and grandson of 
the late Col. Van Egmond, Holland. 
He received a limited education at 
Egmondville public school, and after- 
\vards continued his studies in private. 
When only nine years of age he com 
menced work in his father s woollen 
mill, and at fifteen had the man;. 
ment of the same, in which capacity he 
remained until iSS,, \vlu-n he bought 
his father s business. He then took 
into partnership his brother, William 
I)., and they have since done an exten 


sive trade. They have taken diplomas 
and medals from national exhibitions. 
such as the Intercolonial Exhibition, 
London, Eng., the Universal Exposition, 
Belgium, etc., and also from the Domi 
nion. Provincial and Toronto Exhibi 
tions. The diploma and the Dominion 
silver medal of iSS; are worthy of 
special mention. Mr. Van Bgmond 5 
married August ijth, i.S.s-, to Maggie 
I".., daughter of Alderman YanMoiie, 
of Stratford. Hi- is an adherent of the 
English Church, and in politics is a 
Cnst-rvative. He is a Royal Arch 
Mason of the Malloch Chapter X&lt;&gt;. 66, 
Clinton. 


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CANADA. 


37 


\ERY REV. W. R- HARRIS, 
B.D., Dean of St. Catharines, 
was born on the 3rd of March, 1847, 
in Cork, Ireland. At an early age he 
came to Canada with his parents and 
entered St. Michael s College, Toronto, 
where he finished his classical course. 
He then went to Ste. Anne s Seminary, 
Quebec, to complete a course of meta 
physics and philosophy. In 1869 he 
was appointed secretary to His Grace 
the Archbishop of Toronto, whom he 
accompanied to Rome when summoned 
to attend the Ecumenical Council. 
There he entered the College of the 
Propaganda, Avhere he finished his 
theological course and took 
the degree of B.D., and in 
1870 was ordained priest. 
Before returning to Canada 
he visited the principal cities 
of Europe. On his return 
to Canada, he continued for 
some time as secretary to 
His Grace, and, in recogni 
tion of his services, was ap 
pointed to the rectorship of 
Adjala. Under his pas 
torate a new church was 
erected, and many improve 
ments were made in the 
parish. In 1875 he was 
appointed to the rectorship 
of St. Michael s Cathedral, 
Toronto. Owing to ill- 
health and pressure of hard 
work, he was compelled to 
resign the rectorship of the 
Cathedral, when he removed 
to the parish of Newmarket, 
where he remained eight 
years. Here, as in other 
places, the work of tin- 
Church progressed under 
his charge, and great im 
provements were made. 
Having regained his health, 
he was again selected to 


fill one of the most important positions 
in the archdiocese, and was appointed 
to the parish of St. Catharines and 
Dean of Niagara Peninsula, which 
position he still holds with great credit 
to himself, and to the advantage, both 
spiritually and temporally, of those 
over whom he has been so wisely 
placed. He takes a deep interest in 
popular education, and was president 
of the Association of Mechanics Insti 
tute of Ontario for the years 1885 and 
1886. He was elected on both occa 
sions by acclamation, and was the first 
Roman Catholic that occupied that 
position in the province. 


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CANADA. 


=^TN&lt;&gt;I;KRT GIB s, Sheriff of 

1^ the County of Huron, Gode- 
\^ rich, Out., was born on the 
_ .jth &lt;&gt;f December, 1811, in the city of 
usgow, Scotland. He received liis 
early education in the private schools 
of that great commercial city, and came 
with his parents to Canada in the year 
1820. He worked on his father s farm 
in the County of Lanark until he was 
twenty years of age, and then settled 
on a farm for himself near the town of 
Goderich. He continued farming, in 
addition to engaging in the cattle trade, 
until the year 1867, when he was elect 
ed to the first Ontario Local Legislature 


after Confederation had been completed. 

Hi- was u-ain re-elected in iS^r, and 
sat in the Legislature for two yeai 
He resigned in July, 1^73, and in 
November of the same year was ap 
pointed to his present position as Sheriff 
of the County of Huron. Mr. Gibbons 
was reeve of Goderich for the IOIIL; 
period of nineteen years, was mayor 
three years, and for thirteen consecu 
tive years was warden of the County of 
Huron. He was a member of the Pro 
vincial Board of Agriculture for nine 
years, and president one year of his 
term, following the Hon. D. Christie. 
In 1837 he was at the front as sergeant 
under Colonel Dnnlop, and 
was afterwards gazetted en 
sign and lieutenant in the 
militia. Sheriff Gibbons is 
an honest, upright and 
thoroughly reliable man in 
all the relations of private 
life, and a highly efficient 
officer. He enjoys in his 
old age the esteem of all 
parties and creeds, and is 
still hale and hearty. The 
Sheriff has enjoyed a long 
life, which has been full of 
that which is worthy of 
perusal and emulation, and 
his history stands on th 
pages as a matter which 
may be studied with interest 
and profit by those who desi re 
to make life a su I It- 

is an adherent of the Pres 
byterian Church of Canada. 
Mr. Gibbons was twice mar 
ried first, on the 22n&lt;: 
November, J&lt;\&gt;5. to Miss 
Jane Wilson, and a-ain. in 
the year [880, to Mrs. Alice 
Roddy, who died in 1888. 
a family of fi -on 

and a daughter ha\e pa- 


awav. 


MEN OF" CANAUA. 


309 


JAMES MIDDLEMISS, 
D.D., Chalmers Church, Elora, 
Out., was born in the year 
1823 at Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland. 
He received his education at Duns 
public school under Mr. Mercer ; and, 
after a full arts course in Edinburgh 
University, studied theology under Dr. 
Thomas Chalmers, then at the head of 
New College, Edinburgh. He was also 
trained as a teacher in the Normal 
School of that city. His father dying 
when he was only three months old, he 
became the care of his mother s father 
and brother until he entered the univer 
sity at the age of fifteen. At sixteen 


* 


he was appointed tutor to the late 
James Clerk Maxwell, the distinguished 
physicist. During his university course 
he took a high place in mental science, 
mathematics and natural philosophy. 
After his first session at the university 
he maintained himself and paid all the 
expenses of his education by private 
teaching. He was licensed as a preacher 
in 1849, and after laboring some time 
as assistant to ministers in delicate 
health, he came to Canada in 1855, a "d 
has ever since ministered to the con 
gregation of Chalmers Church, Elora. 
In 1858 Mr. Middlemiss was appointed 
clerk of the Presbytery of Hamilton ; 
and when the Presbytery 
of Guelph was formed, 011 
the occasion of the union 
of the Free and United 
Presbyterian churches in 
1861, he was appointed 
clerk, and held the office 
until 1869, when he re 
signed. In the General 
Assembly he has from time 
to time spoken very effec 
tively in cases of general 
interest, but will be remem 
bered chiefly for his services 
as convener of the commit 
tee on " The Aged and Infirm 
Ministers Fund," from 1877 
to 1887. He received the 
degree of D. D. in 1886 
from Knox College, Toronto. 
Dr. Middlemiss is one of 
the most scholarly men in 
the Presbyterian Church, 
is a literary man of high 
standing and lias published 
pamphlets on " The Evi 
dences, on " Calvinistic 
Doctrine, etc., besides con 
tributing to the church 
papers. He was married in 
1855 to Mary, daughter of 
Capt.l hincan Men/ies, R..\. 


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iir.HT RKY. r. j. n&lt;&gt;wr.i\&lt;;. 

Bishop of Hamilton, ( hit., was 
rn in Limerick, Ireland, 
February _&gt;Sth, 1840. \\"heii he was 
ven years old he came to Canada. 
In September, 1855, he entered St. 
Michael s College, Toronto. He re 
mained there seven years, and took an 
active part in founding St. Michael s 
Literary Association, and still contri 
butes, for the encouragement of the 
society, an annual prize, known as 
The Bowling Silver Medal." In 1861 
he was made one of the professors, and 
in the following 3 ear entered the Grand 
Seminary of Montreal, where he com 
pleted his theological stu 
dies. He was ordained priest 

by the Right Rev. Bishop 
Farrell on August 7th, 
1864, in St. Mary s Cathe 
dral, Hamilton, and in 
October following took 
charge of Paris, Gait, the 
townships of Burford, North 
and South Dumfries, the 
villages of Ayr, Glenmorris, 
and Harrisburg, and the 
villages of Hesplcr and 
Preston. Mainly through 
his indefatigable efforts, the 
heavy debt upon the church 
at Paris was paid, and it 
was subseqnentlv renovated 
at an outlay of over twenty 
thousand dollars. In 1873 
, he purchased the separate 
school property and resi 
dence for the Sisters of St. 
Joseph in Paris. In 1877 
Father Dowling accom- 

the Canadian pil- 

to Rome, taking 

the ( &gt;oldeii Jubilee 
of I n] a- I ins IX. In 
. he built St. 1 ..trick s 
Church, Gait, and in Febru 
ary, iSSi, was appoint 


panied 
grims 
part in 


Yicar-r.eiHT.il. ( &gt;n the I 7th January, 
\;, he was elected Yicar-Capitnla 
of the diocese of Hamilton. On 
the 1st &lt;&gt;f May. lie was con 

secrated P.ishop of Peterboro, and 
labored successfully in that dim 
for two years. ( &gt;n the -Mid of 
May, 1889, he was installed Bishop 
of Hamilton. Bishop Bowling, while 
fervently devoted to his Church, is 
held in high esteem by other deno 
minations, and the good work done 
by him in the many places which 
have been blessed by his labours, 
stands as a lasting monument of his 
worth. 


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MEN OF* CANAIJA. 


RV. THOMAS WEST, parish 
priest, Goderich, Out, was 

+&gt; born on the 13th February, 
1846, in the township of Sheffield, 
County of Addington. He received 
his education at the public school, at 
St. Mary s High School, St. Thomas 
High School, St. Michael s College, 
Toronto, St. Therese College, Qne., 
and the Grand Seminary, Montreal. 
He graduated in theology from the last 
named institution in 1876, and was 
ordained to the holy priesthood by the 
present Archbishop (Walsh) July i9th, 
1876. He was first appointed assistant 
priest to Rev. Dr. Kilroy, of Stratford, 


and after a short period of eight months, 
was removed to Dublin as assistant to 
the Rev. Dean Murphy. In 1880 
Father West was sent to the Mission 
of Raleagh and Ridgetown as parish 
priest, where he remained four years 
and rendered efficient and permanent 
work for the church and diocese. In 
1884 he received the appointment to 
the parish of St. Augustine, and, after 
a four years pastorate in this charge, 
was appointed in 1888 to his present 
field of labor in Goderich. Father 
West is greatly respected, not only by 
his own parishioners, but by all classes 
of the community. 


\ll.N OF V. \\ A I &gt; A. 


JAMES P. WOODS, Q.C., Judge 
of the County of Perth, Strat 
ford, Out., was born on April 
2nd, 1840, in Devonshire, Eng. He 
came to Canada with his parents in the 
year 1842, settling in Stratford, where 
IK- has remained ever since. He com- 
i IK- need study in the first public school 
:icd in Stratford, and completed his 
education at the High schools of Strat 
ford and Cioderich. In the year i 
IK- commenced the stud} of law with 
Judge Li/ars. Hi- \vas admitted to 
practice in iS&lt;&gt;2, and was called to the 
in 1*63, and at once began the 
practice of his profession. He after 


wards formed a partnership with Mr. 
James Fisher, M.A., now of Winni; 
under the title of Woods it Fisher, and 
latterly, Woods, Fisher &. McPhcrsoii. 
I Ie received the appointment of &lt;J.C. in 
iSS5, and in 1887 was appointed a 
judge. Mr. Woods has always taken 
an active interest in all matters pertain 
ing to the welfare of Stratford. He 
was for years president of the Water 
Works Company, and also of the &lt; 
and Klectric Light Co. Mr. Woods is 
a member of the Church of Kngland. 
He was married to Miss Maria C 
1 1, T. I! .rnu-rly 

of St. Thomas. Out. , July 2] 


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CAXADA. 


313 


BEAUFORT VIDAL, 
major in tlie Infantry School 
Corps, was born May i6th, 
1843, a t Chatham, Kent. His father 
was Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal, 
a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy, and 
his mother a daughter of the late Henry 
Veitch, for many years H.B.M. sConsul- 
General in Madeira. Major Vidal was 
educated by private tutors, and at 
Trinity College School, Toronto. He 
was admitted as student-at-law in 1860, 
and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 
1872. He entered the militia of Canada 
as ensign in the 3rd Battalion, Lamb- 
ton, in 1860, and in May, 1862, he 
joined the British army as 
ensign, became a lieutenant 
in the 4th Regiment of 
Foot in 1864, serving with 
that regiment in the Medi 
terranean, India, Abyssinia, 
etc. He was present at the 
action of Arogie and cap 
ture of Magdala. Retiring 
from the British army he 
at once re-entered the Cana 
dian militia as captain of 
the yth Battalion Fusiliers, 
London. In 1882 he be 
came a regimental major in 
the 1 2th Battalion, from 
which corps he was trans 
ferred to the permanent in 
fantry. Major Vidal is in 
politics a Conservative, and 
in religion an Episcopalian. 
He was married in January, 
1869, to Kate Allen, who 
died in 1,884, leaving a son 
and a daughter. Charles 
Emeric KCIT, the son, was 
educated at Upper Canada 
College, and at St. John 
and Halifax Hu .h Schools. 
He matriculated in medicine 
at Bishop s College, Lcn- 
noxville, in iSS5, entered 


the militia of Canada before his six 
teenth year as second lieutenant of the 
6th Fusiliers, and in 1887 became 
lieutenant, and captain in 1889. Hav 
ing transferred to the University of 
Toronto, he graduated as M.B. in 1889, 
and then took a post-graduate course 
at his old college, obtaining the degree 
of M.D., and the gold medal for highest 
marks in March, 1890, and immediately 
was appointed a House Surgeon of the 
Montreal General Hospital, which posi 
tion he now holds. Major Vidal is one 
of the few Canadians who, having served 
in the Imperial Army, has taken an 
active interest in the Canadian militia. 


MK.N &lt; &gt;i CANAI \ 


&gt;5"\EV.GEO.WM. RENDERS 

|\ pastor of Wellin^t"- 

V^s Mcthodi.st Church, London. 
t., was horn on tin- iJtli of May, 
^5, at Sparta, Comity of Klgin, ( hit. 
Ik- received his primary education at 
the public schools, and afterwards con 
tinued his studies at Montreal Theolo 
gical College and McGill University. 
In early life he worked on his father s 
farm. Mr. Henderson s early training 
was that of a Presbj-terian, but, at the 
age of seventeen, he was converted in a 
Methodist Church, and united with that 
denomination. In the year 1873 he 
was given a local preacher s license, 


and preached in that capacity for nearly 
two years. In 1X75 lie- was admitted 
a probationer in the London Con 
ference. While on probation, lie spent 
t\vo years serving the church at \\ &lt; 
minster, and one year at London North, 
and the balance of his probationary 
term being spent at college. He was 
ordained in iSSr, the Rev. John Wake- 
field being president of the Conference. 
Immediately after ordination he was 
sent to the First Church, Hamilton, as 
assistant to Mr. Wakefield. Since that 
time he has been pastor of the follow 
ing stations : Hamilton, Chatham, Lon 
don Queen s Park, Dresden and his 
present charge. He was 
journal secretary of the 
London Conference for two 
years after the union of the 
Methodist churches. He 
has been assistant secretary 
of his Conference, secretary 
of Districts, and has been 
five years in succession Dis 
trict financial secretary. He 
has for years taken an active 
part in the work of the 
Bible Society, and has al 
ways been an active tem 
perance worker. Mr. Hen 
derson is a faithful pastor 
and a successful preacher of 
the Gospel, and has risen, 
very early in life, to a fore 
most position in the work 
to which he has devoted 
himself. He has been 
twice married first, on the 
nth of Maj r , 1882, to Miss 
Emma Hunt, of Westmins 
ter township, who died in 
June, iS$6, and, on the 2&lt; &gt;th 
of June, iSSS, lie was 
again united in marr; 
to Miss ( .race Rothwel . . 
Chatham. I le lias two chil 
dren, a sou and a daughter, 


OK CANADA. 


3 1 5 


&EY.EPH. PATTER 
SON, M.A., Rural 
^ Dean, Stratford, 
Ont., was born in the year 
1826, near Perth, County 
of Lanark. His father came 
to Canada in 1814 with the 
37th Regiment Foot, and 
took part in the struggle 
then going on with the 
United States. He after 
wards settled in Perth, 
where the subject of our 
sketch received his educa 
tion at the public and Gram 
mar schools. He afterwards 
studied theology at the 
Diocesan Theological Col 
lege, Cobourg, which was 
tinder the management of 
Rev. Dr. Bethune, late 
bishop of Toronto. While 
in attendance at this insti 
tution, he carried off the 
Kent testimonial prize in 
1849. I 11 that year he was 
ordained to the diaconate 
by Bishop Stracham, and 
was appointed curate of 
Cobourg. In 1850 he was 
ordained priest and consti 
tuted missionary at Ports 
mouth and Wolfe Island, Frontenac 
County. In 1851 he was transferred 
to the pastorate of St. James Church, 
.Stratford, where he at once removed, 
and lias been incumbent there since 
that time. Subsequently he was 
made Rural Dean of the County of 
Perth by Bishop Hellmuth. On tin 
22nd of February, 1887, he received 
the appointment, from the Bishop of 
1 hi ron, of Canon of the Diocesan Cathe 
dral, London, to succeed the late Rev. 
Dr. Townley. Mr. Patterson is an 
earnest churchman, an energetic worker 
and an eloquent and able preacher. 
?Ie also takes an active interest in all 


matters pertaining to the wclfaiv of 
Stratford. He was for many years 
chairman of the Grammar School 
Board, and of the County Board of 
Public Instruction for granting teachers 
certificates. He also received from the 
Hoard of Education the appointment of 
Public School Inspector for the town 
of Stratford, which position lie resigned 
in iS;^ owing to the pressure of his 
parochial work. I le was also repeatedly 
appointed by the Council Local Super 
intendent of Schools for several town 
ships. Mr. Patterson married, in 185^, 
Jane Want-hope, youngest daughter of 
Donald Macken/ie, Ksq., of &lt; &gt;tta\va. 


\I I .N OF v. AN \1 &gt;.\. 


V\ MLLIAM LOWELL, Niagara 
&gt; r Falls, Out., was born on the 
i6th of February, 1811, in the village 
of St. David s, township of Niagara, 
County of Lincoln, Out. His father 
died about the close of the war of 1812 
to 1815, when William was four years 
of age. Owing to the general devasta 
tion of homes, his mother was left with 

edingly slender means, but man- 

1, with great industry and economy, 
to give her son a fair business educa 
tion. When fourteen years of u.^e he 
entered na-rcaiitile life as a clerk in the 
town of Niagara, and afterwards served 
tor sonic- time in the same &lt; in 


St. Catharines. About 
lie went to the London dis 
trict, but returned to Dnun- 
mondville, no\v the vill 
of Niagara Falls, in iS;, i. 
and there commenced the 
general store business, in 
which he continued until 
1860. During these years 
his business extended, and 
was very successful. Since 
his retirement from the dry 
goods business, he has been 
dealing in securities, etc. 
In 1842 Mr. Lowell was ap 
pointed a Justice of the 
Peace, and for several years 
discharged the duties of his 
office with great efficiency. 
He was a Reformer of the 
old school, and loved to as 
sociate his name with that 
of the late Hon. Rol&gt;ert 
Baldwin and the prominent 
politicians of that day. 
During later years lie did 
not take an active part in 
politics. Mr. Lowell was 
in religion a staunch Pres 
byterian, and in 1887 built 
a church for that congrega 
tion, assuming the entire 
expense, which generous act was highly 
appreciated by the church. This deed 
of love appeared to be ordained as the 
finale of his kindly life, as he died 
very shortly after this, passing away 
on the i6th of March, 1888, and was 
buried in Drummond Hill Cemetery. 
His whole career was marked by an 
honest and diligent performan&lt; e of 
whatever his hands found to do, and, in 
passing away, he left a memory to IK- 
cherished by those who knew him b&lt; 
Mr. Lowell was married in iS; v j to 
Maty, daughter of Christian and Mary 

McCarthy Zavitx. who were both nati 
of the .State of Pennsylvania. ISA. 


CANADA. 


3 7 


JAMES A. LOWELL, Niagara 
Falls South, Out., was born 
there April 2ist, 1849. He 
received his education at the public and 
High schools of his native place. At 
the age of seventeen he went to Wis 
consin, U.S., and engaged in the dry 
goods and boot and shoe business, 
where he remained seven years. He 
then returned to Niagara Falls South, 
where he engaged in the dry goods 
business and was eminently successful, 
and \vas enabled to retire from business 
in 18X2. Mr. Lowell is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, being a member 
of Mount Nebo Chapter No. 76 R. A.M., 


also of St. Mark s Lodge No. 105 A.F. 
cc A.M., also Murton Lodge of Perfec 
tion A. & A.S.R., Hamilton. He is 
also a member of A.O.U.W., and of 
the Select Knights of Canada. He was 
made Justice of the Peace in 1887, is a 
Liberal in politics, and president ot the 
Liberal Association for Welland County. 
In religion he is an adherent of the 
Presbyterian Church, and he gives 
liberally to the church and benevolent 
objects. He was married May 2qlh, 
i SS5 % to Miss Maw Whybra, of Niagara 
Falls South. The biography of Mr. 
Lowell s father appears on the preced 
ing page. 


\nx OF CAXAJ &gt; \. 


,IR THOMAS GALT, Chief 
Justice of Common Pleas of 
Ontario, Toronto, was born on 
the i_ th of August, 1815, in London, 
Kng. Mr. Gait s education was com 
menced in Scotland, continued in Eng 
land until 1828, and completed in 
Lower Canada. He returned to Eng 
land in 1830, and when in his eigh 
teenth year, emigrated and settled in 
T .ronto, where he entered the emplov of 
the Canada Company, remaining there 
from 1833 until i *.&gt;&lt;). Prom September, 
9, until April. iS),,, ]R- \ V as in the 
office of the Commissioner \\-\\ 

Lands. In 1X40 he was articled to 


the late Chief Justice Draper. He 
was called to the Bar in 1845, and at 
once entered upon the practice of his 
profession. He was elected Bencher in 
1855, created a Q.C. in 1859, appointed 
e of the Court of Common I leas 
in 1X69, and Chief justice in iSS;. 
II - appointment was a most creditable 
one, a.s he has proven one of the most 
able and i--4ecuied judges known to 
Canadian Courts, sustaining this hiijh 
honor with the ability and dignity 
propriate to the position. Chief Jn-; 

: is a meml)er of tile Church of 
Kn-land. He was marr: 

, to M .i Perkins. 


MKN OF- CANADA. 


319 


EV. FATHER RICHARD D. 
MALONEY, Markdale, Out., 

_s- youngest son of David 
Maloney, of Acton, Halton County, 
was born on the 23rd of February, 
1867, at Acton, Out. He received his 
preliminary education at the public 
schools, and afterwards attended a col 
lege taught by Father Fleck, S.I., at 
Guelph. In jSS3 he went to St. 
Jerome College, Berlin, Out., where he- 
studied rhetoric, and afterwards studied 
philosophy in St. Michael s College, 
Toronto. In iXSh he entered the 
Seminary of the Sulpidans, Montreal, 
for the study of theology, and took the 


degree of S.T.L. In the summer of 
1889 Father Maloney was ordained to 
the priesthood by Archbishop Fabre, 
of Montreal, and immediately after was 
appointed curate of the church at 
Arthur, -Out. Leaving there he was 
sent to the widely extended mission of 
Priceville, which embraces the charges 
of Priceville, Glenelg, Durham, Melanc- 
thon, Dundalk and Osprey. Father 
Maloney is a member of the C.M.B.A. 
That he is one of the most laborious 
clergymen in the diocese, is evident 
from the large number of stations 
under his pastoral care, and the pr 
peril} enjoyed by each. 


320 


Mix OF v. \x.\i \. 


HENRY HUSTON, 
M.A., Principal of Woodstock 
College, was born on the iyth of June, 
1859, at Whitby, Out. He received his 
education at the public schools and 
Collegiate Institute there, matriculat 
ing into Toronto University in 1876. 
I le was then engaged as teacher in the 
Collegiate Institute, Whitby, remaining 
there four years, at the end of which 
time he was graduated B.A. . it Toronto 
University, winning the Gilchrist 
bolarship &lt;-f London I England I Uni- 
versity. 1 Ic was then appointed I lonsc- 
Mastcr of Pickering College, which 
ition lie filled one year, wlu-n he 


was appointed Principal. Mr. Huston 
was married December 25th, 1882, to 
Miss Taylor, Fonthill. In 1886 he 
was appointed First English Master of 
Toronto Collegiate Institute, continu 
ing there until 1889, when he accepted 
liis present position. l- iom iSS5 to 
^9 he was secretary of the Industrial 
School, Toronto. He is active in tin- 
work of religious and moral re- form. 
Hi- was brought up an I .julian, 

but is now a loyal Baptist. The col! 

r which Mr. Huston presides is 
most cnmj.leU-, and lias what is very 
unusual in Canadian institutes of learu- 
j n . d with it. 


OF* CANADA. 


321 


JAS. KIRKPATRICK KERR, 
Q.C., Toronto, was born near 
Guelph, in the township of 
Pushnch, on the ist of August, iS 4 i. 
He is the son of Robert \Yarren Kerr 
fn.m Ttilly Hill, County of SUgo, 
Ireland, who came to this country in 
S;,2. The subject of our sketch "was 
iducated at Hamilton and Gait under 
the well-known I &gt;r. Tassie. He selected 
law as Ins profession, and was called to 
the liar in August, 1862. ] k- com 
menced the practice of his profession in 

lorontoasamemberofthefirmofBlake 
Kerr & Wells. The II,,,,. Kd Blake 
the Ho,,. S. II. Wake- then being 


t\vo of his partners. This 
connection lasted until 1885, 
when he became the head 
of the firm of Kerr, Mac- 
donald, Davidson & Pater- 
son. He was created Q.C. 
in 1876 by the Lientenant- 
Governor, and in 1871 by 
the Governor-General, was 
elected a Bencher of the 
Law Society in 1879, 1881, 
1886 and 1891. Among the 
man_v important civil and 
criminal cases in which he 
has been retained may be 
noted that of the Queen v. 
Hodge, which he argued 
before the Privy Council in 
England. Mr. Kerr is a 
Liberal in politics. Although 
avoiding public life, he has 
been tendered the nomina 
tion of his party on more 
than one occasion, and in 
1891 contested Centre To 
ronto in the Liberal interest. 
He has been a most active 
and enthusiastic Free Mason 
for nearly thirty years. In 
1865 he was elected "\Y. M. 
of Ionic Lodge, Toronto, 
and was subsequently three 

^1TT^/"AT\r r . i M 


LI uowj iicii LA \ tiiiee 

tunes elected D.D.G.M. of the Toronto 
district. In 1 874 he was Deputy Grand 
Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, 
and succeeded to the Grand Mastership 
on the death of William Mercer Wilson. 
Mr. Kerr has occupied many other im 
portant positions in connection with 
Freemasonry in this country, and was 
regarded as a firm but wise ruler of the 
i-ralt. He is a member of the Church 
of England. He was married twice 
in i So | to the youngest daughter of 
Hon. William Hume Blake, and in 
iSS^ to the daughter of the late Rev. 
George Stanley-Pinhorne, of Cumber 
land, England. 


21 


Ml N OF CAN A I .A. 


. cokXKLirs 

&gt;.J HKXDF.klCK- 
N KoKTklGHT, 
K.C.M.G.. Barrie, Ont,v 

burn on the 2&lt;&gt;th of Decem 
ber, 1817, in London, Hug. 
He is the son of Lawrct. 
Kortright, late of the Gren 
adier Guards, and Maria 
McQueen. He received his 
education at the Knglish 
schools, afterwards in I ranee 
and German} , and also from 
private tutors. In 1842 he 
went to Australia, and re 
mained in that colony ten 
years. He then went to 
Nassau, Bahama Isles, where 
he received the appointment 
of Special Magistrate and 
Crown Commissioner of the 
Isle of Inagua. In 1854 
he was appointed by the 
Home Government Presi 
dent of the Virgin Islands, 
West Indies. He afterwards 
received the appointment 
of Lieutenant-Governor of 
GrenadaAVest Indies. After 
this he became Lieutenant- 
Governor of Tobago. On 
two different occasions he 
was ordered to assume the administra 
tion of the government of Trinidad in 
the absence of the Governor, Sir 
Arthur Gordon. He afterwards was 
appointed administrator of Gambia on 
the West Coast of Africa, and after 
acting in this capacity for two years, 
he was promoted as Goveruor-in-Chicf 
of the African settlements, situated at 
Sierra Leone. Soon after this he re 
ived the appointment of Governor of 
IlrilUh Guiana, South America. In 
M, ..n account of his health failing 
him, In- was compelled to retire from 
active service, and i i the Order 

of St. Michael and St. George from 


Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in re 
cognition of his long, valuable and 
faithful service. Sir Cornelius Kort 
right came to Canada in 1886 and 
settled in the town of Barrie, so 
beautifully situated on Kempeiifeldt 
Day, a fitting place in which to 
retire and enjoy tlio closing hours of 
a long and useful life spent for his 
country in filling the many high 
offices to which lie has been from 
time to time appointed. He married, 
in iS5i, Kmily, daughter of Major 
Anderson, and", lly, Then 

daughter of Captain diaries For 
of the i"th Foot. 


MKN OK CANADA. 


323 


TV ANTHONY LACOURSE, 
^rA Judge of the County Court of 
^^ the Count}- of Waterloo, was 
born in September, "1830, at Berthier, 
Province of Quebec. He commenced 
his education at the Grammar School, 
Pictou, Out., and continued and com 
pleted it at Regiopolis College, King 
ston. After finishing his education he 
began the study of law with the late 
Thomas Kirkpatrick, Esq., Queen s 
Counsel, Kingston. He was called to 
the Bar in the Easter Term in the 
yi-ar 1855, and commenced to practice 
at Lindsay, where he remained for 
some years iu possession of a large 


and profitable clientage. While resid 
ing in Lindsay, he was elected mayor 
for three years in succession. He also 
held the office of Clerk of the Peace 
and ^ County Crown Attorney until he 
received the appointment Of Junior 
Judge of the County of Waterloo. In 
March, 1888, on the death of the late 
judge, he was appointed to the vacant 
office, which he has since filled with 
the dignity and ability appropriate to 
the high position. Mr. Lacourse was 
married to Mary, daughter of the late 
J. Dormer, M.D*, Kingston. She died, 
and he married Frances, daughter of 
the late Col. Baldwin, of Toronto. 


Mi. x OF CAN AM \ 


. FRANK SMITH, Minister 
of Public Works, was born at 
Richhill, Armagh, Ireland, 
in 1822. He accompanied his father 
t&lt;&gt; Canada in 1832 and settled near 
Toronto. He carried on a wholesale 
eery business for over forty years, 
starting in London in 1849 and retiring 
in Toronto in 1891. He was alder 
man of London several years, and 
mayor in iS66, was president of the 
Northern Railroad Co., Toronto Street 
Railway Co., Northern and Pacific 
junction Railroad Co., and of the 
Northern Extension Railroad Co. dur 
ing it&gt; existence, president of the 


Home Savings and Loan Co., London 
and Ontario Investment Co., Ltd., 
vice-president of the Dominion Hank 
and of the Dominion Telegraph Co.. is 
a director of the Consumers . 
the General Trust Co., and the North 
American Life Insurance Co., Toronto, 
also a director on the. Canadian Hoard 
of the ( , rand Trunk Railway. IK- 
called to the Senate February 2nd, 1*71, 
and sworn in the Privy Council July 
29th, iSS2, and sworn in as Minister of 
Public Works August i.jth, 1891. 
Hon. Mr. Smith is a staunch Conserva 
tive. He married a daughter of John 
O Higgins. Ksq.. J.P., Stratford, (Jut. 


MEN OK CANADA. 


325 


/^EORGE HENRY HENDERSON, L.D.S., 
V_A Elora, Out., was born in April, 1866, at 
Hollin, Maryborough township, Wellington 
County. He is the son of the late George 
Henderson, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Harriet 
Landerkin, of this country. He was educated 
at the Harriston High School. In the year 1888 
he began the study of dentistry in the office 
of Dr. J. G. Adams, Toronto, and also attended 
the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, 
graduating in the spring of 1891. He then 
located in the town of Elora, where he opened 
an office and began to practice on his own ac 
count, and has already laid the foundation of a 
desirable and important connection. Mr. Hen 
derson is in religion a Methodist, and is Sunday 
School Superintendent and president of the 
Epworth League. He is a member of the Sons 
of Scotland, and also of the Royal Templars of 
Temperance. In politics he is a member of the 
Liberal party, and takes an active part during 
election campaigns. If a thorough knowledge of 
his profession and a strict attention to 
his clients mean anything, he may expect 
a large and profitable practice. 


Kl-.V 


ROUT. GORDON SrTIIKRI.AXI &gt;. 
.A., B.A., Canon of Christ Church 
^, Cathedral, Hamilton, Out., was born 
August 2 7 th, 1845, at Aberdeen, Scotland. He 
came to Canada in 1866. He was educated at 
King Edward s School, Birmingham, Trinity 
College, Cambridge, and graduated at Trinity 
College, Toronto. In 1875 he received the degree 
B.A. and in 1878 that of M. A. He was ordained 
"ii at St. Stephen s Church, Toronto, in 
1870, and priest at All Saints, Whitby, in 1871, 
by the Right Rev. A. M. Bethune, Bishop of 
Toronto. He was appointed to Pickering from 
1870 to IS;,, was curate of Christ Church and 
All Saints Church, Hamilton, from i,s 7 , to is-&lt;&gt; 
and rector of St. Mark s Church, Hamilton. ;,, 
1877. He was then appointed Canon of Christ 
Church Cathedral. Canon Sutherland has at 
different times held mission services in many 
places of the Province of Ontario. He was 
elected delegate to the Provincial Synod in 1886, 

and even- yea,- since to date. On November 24. 
1869, he was married at Bruce Mines by the 
Rev. James Chance, to Miss Jane Kemiett.s. of 
St. Anstell. Cornwall. Kng. 


\1 K \ &lt; &gt;F 


W. H. PORTKR. 

A\ Tn.LIAM HENRY PORTER, L.D.S., 

\\ Bradford, Out., was born February 

27th, 1837, in Dublin, Ireland, and was brought 

to Canada in his infancy. He was educated at 

the public schools in Canada, and afterwards 

learned the carpenter trade. In 1860 he entered 

the dental office of N. P. Peck, Newmarket, and 

in 1868 was granted a license by the newly 

organized Dental Board. For thirty years he 

has practiced in Bradford and Simcoe County. 

His son, Fred. R. Porter, D.D.S., a graduate of 

the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario 

and Toronto University, has now succeeded Dr. 

Purter. and carries on his father s business. He 

member of the Methodist Church, and is a 

.n of high standing, being P.M. and Past 

I- irst Principal, and Past Grand Superintendent 

Royal Arch Masons, Knight Templar, i8th 

u-icnt Accepted Scottish Rite, Provincial 

e Egyptian Rite, P. Ins: 
ryptice Masonry, also Pa-t District 
Deputy of the A.().r.\V., and Pa-t 

Deptitv ( .rand Commander of the Select Knights. 
Dr. Porter married, in i " . daughter of 

Capt. K. B. C. 1 layter, Holland s Landing, Out. 


JWKSI.KY kl-.DI-T.RN. Owen Sound, 
. ()nt., was horn at Picton, Prince 
County, on the 2.sth of July, i 
IK- ln-gaii his edu&gt;.iti&lt;&gt;n at the jm1&gt;l : .. 
and completed it at the High S ln"&gt;l of Owen 
Sound. In 1*65 he lx.-gan an apprenticeship of 
three years to the hardware business with d. M. 
Buchart, and in 1868 took the management of 
the establishment as foreman, which p option 
he ably filled. In 1874 he Ijecame partner, 
which partnership continued until 1879, when 
a new business was started under the name 
of Red fern and I^epan, which still continues. 
The firm does an extensive business, both 
wholesale and retail, and is well known to 
be the shelf and heavy hardware house of that 
section of country. Mr. Redfern was alderman 
in 1889, a member of the council of the Board of 
Trade for three years, and one of the first direc 
tors of the Owen Sound Building and Saving 
Society. He is in religion a Methodist, in 
politics a Conservative, and a Master Mason. 
He was married on the 27th December, 
1876, to Jane, eldest daughter of K. 
Ferguson, Ireland. 


MBN OR CANADA. 


&gt;EY. T. ALBERT MOORE, 
pastor of Sinicoe Street Metho- 
5&gt; dist Church, Hamilton, Out., 
was born on the agth of June, 1860, at 
Acton, Out. He received his education 
in the public schools of Acton and the 
Georgetown Academy. Early in life 
he earnestly devoted himself to self 
culture, and may fairly be said to be a 
self-educated man. Commencing busi 
ness as a printer at the age of fourteen, 
he became both editor and proprietor of 
the Acton Free Press within three years. 
With limited experience, yet by in 
domitable energy, the paper soon at 
tained a provincial reputation, and a 
substantial and remunera 
tive business built up. In 
January, 1879, he was con 
verted, and feeling called to 
the work of the ministry, 
he disposed of the printing 
business the following July 
to his brother, H. P. Moore, 
and began special prepara 
tion for his sacred calling. 
Licensed as a local preacher 
iu 1879, he was received by 
the London Conference of 
the Methodist Church of 
Canada as a probationer in 
1880 and sent to London 
North Circuit. Before or 
dination he labored with 
acceptance on the London 
North, Belmontand Sal ford 
Circuits, remaining on the 
latter two years. He was 
ordained at the Conference 
of 1884, Rev. W. C. Hen 
derson, D.I)., being presi 
dent for that year, and has 
since served the church at 
Drumbo, Princeton, and 
his present charge, Simcoe 
StreetjHamilton. Mr. Moon- 
has been blessed with 
gracious revivals on every 


Circuit, and very successful in adding 
to the membership of the church, being 
especially useful in his labors among 
young people. He is an earnest worker 
in behalf of temperance and Sabbath 
schools, and is an active member of the 
Executive Committee of the Provincial 
Sabbath School Association, taking- 
deep interest in its work and urging its 
mission plans throughout the province. 
In June, 1890, he was a delegate to the 
International Sabbath School Conven 
tion, held in Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Moore 
was married on the i6th of September, 
1884, to Miss Lissa Newton, of Wood 
stock, Out. 


\n \ OF CANAI &gt;.\. 


,EY. JOHN LAYCOCK, past* 

of Emerald Street Methodist 
Church, Hamilton, Out., 
born at Emhro, (Int., on the j i st 
of ( )ctober, iX.jX. He received his 
education in the public schools of his 
native place and Albert University, 
Belleville. At the age of 21 he was 
converted and joined the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and from that time 
began to preach the Gospel. The 
church, recognizing his gifts and graces, 
granted him a local preacher s license. 
For a 3 ear before joining the Annual 
Conference, he preached on the Mala- 
hide Circuit. In 1871 he joined the 


Niagara Conference, WU ordaincu 
deacon in the year 1X73 by the i 
I .i-shop Riehard.son, and ordained elder 
in iX-^ by Hishop Carman. Mr. I,av- 
cock travelled succcsshclv the follow 
ing circuits: Mount Kl.^iii, Nissouri, 
Leamington, Hothwell and Florence, 
St. Clair, Glencoe, Wallacebtirg, Essex 
Centre, Chatham, London North, and 
Park Hill, before the union. Since 
that event he has served the church at 
Ingersoll, Waterford, and his present 
charge. He has held important posi 
tions in connection with the church, 
having been journal secretary of the 
Niagara Conference for eight years 
before the tinion, and having 
held the same position in 
the Conference since. He 
has also been financial 
secretary of Districts. Mr. 
Laycock has built a goodlv 
number of churches during 
his ministry, and at this 
writing (1891) he has under 
taken the erection of a 
church in the eastern part 
of the city of Hamilton, to 
be known as the "John 
Wesley Memorial Church." 
The lecture platform is often 
occupied by him, and he is 
a frequent contributor to 
current literature. During 
his ministry he has been 
blessed with numerous revi 
vals, hundreds of souls 
having been converted, and 
among them a goodly num 
ber who are now preaching 
the Gospel. Mr. Layi 
was married on the i &gt;tli 
of April, iX;n, to Miss 
Annctta Marie Dolson, 
daughter ,,f Gilbert II. 
I )oK,,n, of Chatham, Out., 
a lady of culture and 
finement. 


IVIEX OH- C AX A HA. 


RICHARD MARTIN 
MEREDITH, one of the 
Justices of the Supreme 
Court of Judicature for Ontario, of 
London, Canada, was born there March 
ajth, 1847. He is the fourth son of 
the late John Walsingham Cookc Mere 
dith, who was a B.A. of Trinity Col 
lege, Dublin, and studied for the Bar in 
Ireland. Our subject received his edu 
cation at the private schools of Rev. 
Charles I . Watson and Rev. T. D. 
Luard, M.A., London. In 1864, at the 
age of seventeen, he began the studv 
of law under his eldest brother, \Y. R. 
Meredith. Soon after this lie entered 


the military school, and was one of the 
first that graduated and received a com 
mission. He served during the Fenian 
Raid on the frontier at Windsor, and 
in all the encampments which followed 
until the war feeling had subsided. He 
then resumed his law studies, and was 
admitted to the Bar in 1869. He at 
once entered into practice with his 
brother Kdmund, and continued with 
him until he received his present ap 
pointment. He has always been firmly 
devoted to the study and practice of his 
profession. In politics Mr. Meredith 
was a Conservative, and in religion is 
an Episcopalian. He never married. 


\IKN . \X\D.\. 


CR. ROSS, Niagara Falls 
South, Ont, was born July 8th, 
= 1818, at Metuchen, New 
Jersey, CJ.S.A. His education was re 
ceived at the public school of that place 
and by private study. He lived on his 
father s farm until fourteen years of 
, when he came to Drnmmondville, 
., to live with his brother, with 
whom he was associated in busiii 
for twelve years. In i.v;; 1: ;&gt;tcd 

an appointment of the American T- 
Society and went to Virginia, where In- 
engaged in the work of col port.. 
He was an earnest Christian young 
man, and this work was much Ji: 


congenial to him than i/nsincss life. 
For thirty years he visited Sunday 
schools and families, distributing l;il 
books and tracts. During the Ameri 
can war he was in labors abundant, at 
tending to the sick and dying soldi* 
conducting religions services and ad 
ministering spiritual consolation to the 
iuni : the hospitals. Failing 

health compelled him to give up tin- 
work, and he returned to Canada to 
make his home with his brother Alan- 
son, who died in iS.S&gt;, since which t : 
he has lived a quiet, retired life with 
his Mr. a Method 

and i&gt; highly d. 


OK CANADA. 


H. PAHTAHQUAHOXG 

CHASE, Sarnia, Out., heredi- 
^s tary Chief of the Ojibway 
tribe of Indians, president of the Grand 
Council, and missionary of the Colonial 
and Continental Church Society at 
Mnnceytown, Out., Canada, was "born 
at Belleville in the year 1818. He re 
ceived his early educational training at 
the mission school of his birthplace, 
and afterwards .attended Genesee Col 
lege, New York State, from which in 
stitution he graduated in 1839. He 
was appointed to the Civil Service by 
I-ord Metcalfe, as interpreter to the 
Indians on the frontier in 1843. He 


remained in this position 
for the long period of twenty 
years, and was created lieu 
tenant in the service, mak 
ing his complete term of 
service on the borders cover 
forty-seven years. Mr. Chase 
was married in the year 
1852 to Miss Annie G. 
Armour. He was ordained 
in the year 1863 by the first 
Bishop of Huron, and has 
remained in Sarnia since 
that time. He is now living 
retired there. Upon the 
Prince of Wales visit to 
Sarnia in the year 1860, 
Mr. Chase had the honor of 
reading the Indians address 
to him, and, in return, the 
Prince conferred upon him 
the Queen s medal, as shown 
in his portrait on this page. 
He has been in England 
four times, and on each oc 
casion was Avarmly received 
and treated royally. On 
July ist, 1885, the Lord 
Mayor of London received 
him at luncheon at the 
Mansion House, where fol 
lowed cordial addresses from 
Sir Charles Tnpper, Sir T. F. Buxton, 
Rev. J. A. Bailey, chaplain of the 
Foundling Hospital, and others. He- 
was also warmly received by the Prince 
and Princess of "\Yales on this visit. 
Mr. Chase is not only a very much 
respected Indian chief, but has" been a 
devoted missionary, and has done much 
tor the elevation and Christiani/ation 
of the aborigines of Canada. He had 
their cause at heart, and so earnest was 
he that he never failed to excite sym 
pathy for them, wherever he was privi 
leged to preach the Gospel. He is 
now in his j.jtli year, and retains much 
of the spirit of his earlier days. 


\1 I N i &gt;l w A X \ I &gt; A. 


-&lt;TV :v - ^". r. 

JV I. EN. D.D., ]&gt;astor 
\^i of Kuox Church, 
W ;., ( &gt;nt., was born 

on the 9th January, iS;i. 
in the North of Ireland. 
He is a brother of lames 
McMullen, M.P. for North 
Wellington. The subject 
of our sketch studied in 
Knox College under Prof. 
Esson, Geo. Paxton Young, 
and Dr. Willis. He gradu 
ated in the year 1856, and 
was ordained at Millbank 
on the 5th of November of 
the same year. He was 
married the following year 
to Miss Susanna Gilbert, 
of Toronto. In the year 
1860 he accepted a call in 
Woodstock, where he has 
remained since. Dr. Mc 
Mullen has always taken 
an active part in the discus 
sion of the public questions 
of the da)-, having a most 
intelligent grasp of all such 
matters. In 1882 he pre 
sided at a Conference in the 
Parliament House, Toronto, 
representing four Anglican 
Synods, two Conferences of the Metho 
dist Church, and two Synods of the Pres 
byterian Church, convened to press the 
matter of the reading of the Scriptures 
in the public schools on the attention 
of the Government. He introduced 
the deputation and addressed the 
Premier on this occasion, and the move 
ment resulted in the introduction of the 
.k of Scripture Readings now in 
use. 1 r. McMullen has been M 
rator of the Synod of Hamilton and 
London, and has been Clerk of I 
Presbytery since ( )cto: In 

tli, :SSS he was chosen by accla 

mation Moderator of th ral A.S- 


sembly of the Presbyterian Church in 
Canada at Halifax. To show with 
what efficiency and satisfaction to the 
church he filled this honorable position, 
we quote a few lines from the Prcshv- 
tcrian Review, of June, 1889: " By 
common consent Dr. McMullen has 
made a most efficient, dignified and 
courteous Moderator." He received the 
of I). D. from Kuox College in 
the year iSSo.. Early in the same ; 
lie presided at one of the sessions of a 
aference on Christian I nity held in 
Toronto, representing the Anglican, 
Methodist and Presbyterian churches 
of the I tominion. 


CANADA. 


kEV. ED. BURKE 
KILROY, D.D., of 
^ Stratford, Out., 
was born on the 3Oth of 
November, 1830, in Ireland. 
His parents came to Canada 
in the year 1836 and settled 
near Windsor, Out. At the 
age of fifteen he entered the 
University of Notre-Dame, 
Indiana, to prosecute his 
theological studies, and gra 
duated in 1853 with honors. 
He then continued his 
studies until 1854, when he 
was ordained priest. From 
1854 to 1856 he was one of 
the best known missionary 
priests in Northern Indiana 
and Southern Michigan. In 
1856 he received the ap 
pointment of president of 
the University of Saint 
Mary s of the Lake, Chicago, 
Illinois, where he remained 
two years. He was then 
made pastor of the church 
in Laporte, Indiana, and 
soon after transferred to the 
city of Lafayette, one of the 
most important parishes in 
the diocese of Fort Wayne, 
where he remained till 1864. He was 
then transferred to the mission of 
Sarnia, Ont., and from that time until 
the present has been actively engaged 
in mission work in the diocese of 
London, during which time he has been 
pastor of Sarnia, St. Mary s, rector of 
London Cathedral, and parish priest of 
Stratford. During the American Civil 
War Father Kilroy was appointed 
special agent of the State of Indiana to 
look after the wounded belonging to 
that .State in the armies of the Cumber 
land, Mississippi and Potomac. This 
appointment gave him an opportunity 
of ministering to the spiritual wants of 


hundreds of Roman Catholic soldiers 
who otherwise must have died without 
the rites of their religion. He visited 
Europe in 1876 and 1877, travelling 
through England, Ireland, Spain, 
France and Italy, in company with the 
Right Rev. Bishop Walsh, of London. 
During his stay in Rome he received 
his degree of D.D. from the College of 
the Propaganda. Dr. Kilrov is one of 
the best known Catholic priests in 
Ontario. He is an eloquent preacher, 
an able lecturer, and a faithful pastor. 
His life has been marked by toil and 
sacrifice for others, and he will long be 
remembered bv what he has done. 


MEN OF CANADA. 


\ RCHIBALD McNEE, Windsor, 
2~A Out., was born in Perth, County 
^^ of Lanark, in the year 1845. 
His parents were natives of Perthshire, 
Scotland, and came to Canada in 1821. 
He received his education at the public 
school and at Perth High School. His 
early life was spent on a farm, and, 
with a view of going- into stock farming, 
he- took a course in agriculture at the 
Toronto University, and was among 
the first who obtained the diploma 
Mitario Veterinary College, 
Toronto. In (867 Mr. McNee married 
Miss Isabella Campbell, of Lanark 
County, whose parents came from 


Argylshire, Scotland. In 
iS;.} he removed to Winni 
peg, and for a munbc: 

ara was License Inspector 
for the Proviiu-e of Mani 
toba. Having a strong in 
clination for newspaper 
work, he joined the staff of 
the Winnipeg Free Pi. 
and for a period of years 
represented that paper in 
the Parliamentary Press 
Gallery at Ottawa. He was 
president of the Gallery in 
1885. He was a member 
of the Winnipeg Council 
for several years, and also 
for a number of years a 
member of the Public School 
Board. During the boom 
in Winnipeg he operated in 
real estate, in which lie was 
fairly successful. For some 
considerable time he was 
managing editor of the Free 
Press. In the year 1888 he 
severed his connection with 
that paper and purchased 
the // cekly Recard in Wind 
sor, Out., where he has 
remained since. In 1890 
he commenced the publica 
tion of the Evening Record. In politics 
Mr. McXee is a Liberal, although not 
a parti/an. He is a thorough Canadian, 
believing in Canadian Independence, 
and that her political and commercial 
course should be shaped so as to secure 
her own best interests. In religion he 
is a Baptist, and holds the of: 
deacon and Sunday School superinten 
dent. He is also president of the 
Windsor branch of the Young Men -* 
Christian Association, and is interest 
in all matters pertaining to the moral 
and religions welfare of tile community. 
He is a public-spirited citi/en, and 
highly d by all e 


X OR CANADA. 


335 


J\ LBERT ASA POST, architect, 
-2~~\ Manning Arcade, Toronto, 
^ Out., was born on January 
29th, 1850, at Pickering, Ontario 
County. His parents were Asa and 
Ann O Reilly Post, his father was born 
in Canada and his mother in Ireland. 
The subject of our sketch received his 
education at the public school and at 
St. Michael s College, Toronto. After 
completing his education lie began 
the study of architecture in the office 
of Messrs. I,angly ec Burke, Toronto. 
In the year 1879 lie began his pro 
fession in the town of \Yhitby. His 
business, which is large and increas 


ing, is not, however, confined to that 
place, but extends over the whole pro 
vince and the neighboring Republic, 
where he has erected many important 
buildings. In 1891 he opened an office 
in Toronto, associating with him A. W. 
Holmes, of London, Kng., the firm 
being known as Post oc Holmes. Mr. 
Post in religion is a Roman Catholic 
and in politics is a Reformer. He is a 
member of the Whitby High School 
Hoard, a member of the Ontario Asso 
ciation of Architects, and is County 
Architect for Ontario County. He has 
reached the front in his profession, and 
has a brilliant future before him. 


M IN OF v. \N.\I \. 


ALBERT SHERWOOD, 
artist, 54 Toronto Arcade, 
Toronto, son of William and EYr/.a. 
McBrien Shenvood, was born on the 
ist August, 1859, at Omemee, Victoria 
Count} , Ontario. He was educated at 
the public and Grammar schools, and 
from childhood showed great aptitude 
for .sketching, etc. At the age of four 
teen he began the study of art, and 
after a time entered the Pennsylvania 
.Wademy &lt;! I ; ine Arts at Philadelphia. 
In i.SS; he returned to Canada and 
necl a studio in Toronto, where he- 
lias 1&gt;e en most successful as a portrait, 
animal and genre- painter. In iSX.j he 


was elected as a member of the Ontario 
Society of Artists, and is one of the 
most energetic of the Executive Council. 
He organized the Central Ontario 
School of Art, and is very active in 
promoting the stud} of art in Canada. 
He is generally known as the " I oet 
Artist." " Otoronton " and " Loretto " 
are among his best productions. II 
the author of the poem "Lak&lt;- Cou- 
chouching," which appears in " Son^s 
of the &lt;iveat Dominion." He has ]ir&lt;&gt;- 
duced dialectic poems. : 

])rodnctions arc pervaded with a spirit 
of Canadian nationalism. He is a 
member of the H;.;-&gt; opal Church. 


MKN 


CANADA. 


337 


&gt;EV. WILLIAM F. 
CLARKE, Congre- 
_s- gational clergy 
man, Guelph, Out., was 
born on the 3ist of March, 
1824, at Coventry, Eng. 
His father was the Rev. 
Win. Clarke, who founded 
the Congregational Church 
in London, Out., in 1837, 
and was one of the 
pioneer ministers of Western 
Canada. Pie received his 
theological education in 
Toronto at the Congrega 
tional College of British 
North America, and entered 
the ministry in 1844, when 
he was only twenty years 
of age. His first charge 
was Burford, Out., after 
which he became pastor of 
the Congregational Church 
in London, where he re 
mained about ten }-ears. 
While there he was Super 
intendent of Schools for the 
city, and secretary of the 
County Board of Education. 
He subsequently removed 
to Guelph and became 
pastor of the Congregational 
Church, from 1860 to 1872. After this 
he was pastor of several churches in 
Ontario. In 1888 he retired from the 
regular settled ministry. Pie has for 
many years been prominent in the pro 
motion of agriculture, having been for 
thirty years a constant contributor to 
the Agricultural and Horticultural 
Departments of the Montreal // itness. 
He also founded the Canada /Banner, 
Ontario J ~ari&lt;-i\ and Rural Canadian , 
and was editor of Tin American ]!&lt;&lt; 
Journal of Chicago for two years. F&lt; &gt;r 
twenty years he has been a constant 
contributor to the latter and to other 
journals. He is the founder of the 


Guelph Agricultural College, and has 
recently founded the Ontario Bee- 
Keeper s College. .Mr. Clarke is also 
contributor to several of the leading 
journals in Canada and the United 
States. He possesses extensive know 
ledge of the leading questions of tin- 
day, and is a writer of great versatility 
and power, still retaining his strength 
and vigor, and bids fair to spend many 
more years in helping his fellows in 
the many ways for which he is so 
eminently fitted. He was married in 
1844 to Mary Ann, daughter of the 
late Rev. William Lyle, a minister of 
the Primitive Methodist Church. 


338 


MEN 


CANADA. 


&lt; . JOSEPH PHILP, B.D., of 
Last London, Out., was born 
^^ in the township of Manvers, 
County of Durham, on the 4th of 
September, 1851. He is of English 
descent, his parents having come from 
Cornwall, Eng., about forty-seven years 
ago. His education was commenced at 
the public schools, and was continued 
by private study, summer schools and 
ial courses. He was the first 
adian to graduate from the Chau- 
tauqua School of Theology, receiving 
the degree of B.D. in January, 1890. 
He is a graduate of the C.I. S.C.of tin- 
class of 18X3, and of the C.X.I), of 


He lias also for many 
made a sjiedal stiidv 

lenoe of in-olo^y. 
Mr. Philp. like man\- promi 
nent nic-ii of tlu- day, spent 
his early life- on his fatli 
farm. In 1869, when in his 
eighteenth ) ear, he entered 
the ministry of the Metho 
dist Church. Before ordi 
nation he travelled the fol 
lowing circuits : Omemee, 
Millbrook, Nelson and An- 
caster. He was ordained in 
1873, and since that time he 
has served very acceptably 
the church at Manvers, 
Blyth, Holmesville, Bel- 
grave, Sparta, Talbotville, 
St. Thomas Central, Wat 
ford and London East, his 
present charge. He has 
had a large share of District 
and Conference honors, and 
has been for five years Con 
ference treasurer of the 
Superannuation Fund. He 
is a strong advocate of tem 
perance principles, and 
practices and takes a special 
I interest in the Sunday 
School and Bible Societv 
work of the present day. He is a 
great student, an earnest hard worker, 
and has been very successful in build 
ing churches and paying off church 
debts. He has also been very success 
ful in evangelistic work, frequently 
doubling the membership on I 
charges. As a pastor his kindi: 
heart and brotherly sympathy win for 
him a place in the affections of all his 
parishioners. As a preacher he 1. 
feu- equals in the practiral pn-sentation 
of the (rospel. Mr. Philp was united 
in marriage with Miss Louisa Wright 
Bennett, of Copt-town, on the nth 
June, r 


MEN OR CANADA. 


339 


4 TON. ALEXANDER 

TH MACKENZIE, of 

v5 Toronto, M.P. for 

East York, and ex-Premier 

of Canada, was born near 

Dnnkeld, Perthshire, Scot 
land, on the aSth January, 

1822. He received his earl} 

education at the public 

school, and continued his 

studies at the Cathedral, 

Dunkeld, and at Perth. In 

1842 he came to Canada, 

settling at Kingston, but 

soon after removed to Sarnia, 

Out., started business as 

builder and contractor. Here 

he conducted his private 

avocations, though all the 

while studying public ques 
tions. A \Yhig in Scotland, 
he brought his Liberalism 
with him. In 1852 appear 
ed the Lamb ton Shield, 
with Air. Mackenzie as 
editor, and for two years 
with great force he contend 
ed through that paper for 
the expansion of liberty. 
He has always held the 
principles of the universal 
brotherhood of man, and be 
lieves in the extinction of all class legis 
lation. In 1 86 1 he was elected to repre 
sent Lambton in Parliament, where he 
at once attracted attention, and became 
head of his party. From 1867 to I S?3 
he was leader of the Reform party, 
and, in 1873, was placed at the head of 
the Liberal party of the Dominion, 
rpon the resignation of Sir John A. 
Macdonald in November, 187^. Lord 
Dufferin called upon him to form an 
administration. As an administrator 
he was conscientious, there is not one 
deed of his that can be stamped with 
reproach. During his administration 
several important questions, which 


threatened the gravest complications, 
were adjusted. As a private member, 
he is author of many important mea 
sures. Mr. Mackenzie is president of 
the Sovereign Fire Insurance Company, 
of the North American Life Insurance 
Company, and a director of the Build 
ing and Loan Association. He was 
major of the Executive Council, and 
treasurer of Ontario in Mr. l!la&lt; 
administration from 1X7! to 1872. He 
was twice offered the honor of knight 
hood, but declined its acceptance. lie 
has been twice married first to Helen 
Neil, of Irvine, Scotland, and again to 
Jane Sym, of Perthshire, Scotland. 


340 


MBN OF CANAMA. 


. ROBERT ALEXANDER 
FYFE, D.D., first principal of 
s; the Canadian Literary Insti 
tute, now so favorably known as Wood- 
stock College, was born on the aoth of 
October, 1816, in the parish of St. 
Philippe, a few miles south of Montreal. 
He was of Scotch parentage, and gave 
evidence all his life of that virility and 
prudence that have characterized the 
Scottish Canadian. He was a man of 
unusual physical and mental robust 
ness. His spiritual nature was warm, 
devout and joyous. Dr. Fyfe in his 
college career ga\e evidence of the 
brilliant and useful future before him. 


He received his theological 
training at Newton Theolo 
gical Seminary. In the 

ir is.}2 he was ordained 

and be-an work in tin- 
Ottawa Valley, which still 
remembers him with grati 
tude. While laboring here 
he organized the Perth 
Baptist Church. In the 
year 1843 Dr. Fyfe was 
married to Jane, daughter 
of James Thompson, Esq., 
of Laprairie. In 1844 he 
received a call from the 
March Street Church, To 
ronto, which he accepted. 
From this church have 
sprung directly and indirect 
ly all the many Baptist 
churches to be found in 
Toronto to-day- I" 1848 
he returned to Perth, having 
become dissatisfied with the 
ultra rigid views of his 
Toronto people. He re 
mained in Perth until the 
year 1853, when he accept 
ed a call to the "Warren 
Church, and later in the 
same year went to Mil 
waukee, where he remained 
two years. He then accepted a call 
from Bond Street Church, Toronto, 
where he labored faithfully until the 
year 1857, when he was asked to take 
charge of the Canadian Literary Insti 
tute, Woodstock, which he was instru 
mental in founding. He continued 
principal of the latter institute until 
his death, which occurred on the -}th 
of September. 1878. Dr. Fyf&lt; 
garded as the Baptist A 
( hitario, and his name will be -. 

more and in "*" 

Church and State, and 

of religious freedom, are more fully 
apprcci; 


OR CANADA. 


341 


)EV. BENJAMIN D. THOMAS, 
D.D., pastor of Jarvis Street 
. i Baptist Church, Toronto, 
was bora on the 2;th of January, 1843, 
near Narberth, South Wak-s. His 
father was pastor of the Baptist Church 
iu the latter place for over forty years. 
The subject of our sketch received his 
education at Craig House Academy, 
Swansea, and Haverford West Baptist 
Collar, Wales. He was ordained in 
Neath, Glamorganshire. In iS6S he 
came to America. His first settlement 
in this country was \vith the Baptist 
Church in I ittston, Penn. In October, 
1^7.2, he assumed charge of one of the 


leading churches of the denomination 
in the city of Philadelphia, and main 
tained a successful pastorale for eleven 
years. In October, iSS:&gt;, he removed 
to Toronto, where he still continues 
ministering to the largest church of the 
denomination in Canada. Dr. Thomas 
is the author of several small booklets, 
which have had an extensive circula 
tion- He was married in Wales in 
iS(,( to Mary Jones, who died in 1886, 
leaving six children. His present wife, 
to whom he was married in March, 
1887, was Miss Mariana Be van, daugh 
ter of the late Ebenezer Bevan, Ksq., 
I ittston, Penn. 


Ml-lN &gt;l MANAMA 


XDREW PATTULLO, Wood- 
stock, Out., was born in 1850 
^ in Calcdon township, Peel 
County. He received his education in 
the public school of Blenheim town 
ship, County of Oxford, Duiidas High 
; ,ool, St. Catharines Collegiate Insti 
tute, and after taking the Gilchnst 
scholarship, he attended London Uni 
versity. He commenced the study of 
law in London, but had to give it 
up owing to ill-health. In 1875 he 
entered tin- Sentinel newspaper 
Woodstock, as junior partner. In i 
he bought out his brother s interest in 
the SentincL and shortly after this 


amalgamated with the Review, his paper 
now being known as The Sentinel- 
Review. Since Mr. Pattullo took hold 
of the Sentinel the business has in 
creased fourfold. The firm now con 
sists of himself and his nephew, Andrew 
Laidlaw. Mr. Pattnllo is recognised 
as one of the most able editors west of 
Toronto. He was president of the 
Canadian Press Association for iSox&gt;, 
,i and 1X92. He is an able platform 
.iker, and is a power for the Reform 
party during campaigns. In religion 
he is a Presbyterian. IK- was married 

:- K)tii. : irth 

daughter of R. Halmer, &lt; (akville, ( hit. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


343 


WM. TUCKER TAPSCOTT, 
of Woodstock, Out., was born in 
Northumberland County, Out., 
on the igth of May, 1852. His father was 
the late Rev. S. Tapscott, Baptist minister. 
He was educated at Woodstock Seminary and 
McMaster University. In 1880 he was or 
dained to the ministry of the Baptist Church, 
and became pastor of the united charge of 
Stouffville and Markham. Afterwards he 
accepted the charge of Parliament Street 
Church, Toronto, and from thence went to 
Aylmer for fo:ir years. Here the church en 
joyed continued and increasing prosperity 
during his pastorate. Receiving a call to 
Brampton, he remained there four and a half 
years, during which time the cause doubled 
both numerically and financially, and, in 181,1, 
moved to his present charge, Oxford Street, 
Woodstock. His acceptance of this church 
involved leaving a more lucrative field, but 
this he did cheerfully, believing his proper 
place to be where he was most needed. He 
was married &lt;ri August Sth, 1882, to Nellie 
K., daughter of A. Rowland, London, Out. 


s^^\\ ; .\. CHARI.KS J. DOBSOX, B.D., 
M^ Toronto, was born September igth. 
V^ 1852, in the township of Reach, 
Ontario County, Out. He was educated at 
the public and High schools, where he pre 
pared for matriculation in Toronto University. 
He became a probationer of the Methodist 
Church in 1873, and in 1877 was ordained, 
receiving the degree of B.D. from Chatauqua 
University in 1891. Mr. Dobson spent his 
early years on a farm, during which time he 
was converted to God, and spent several years 
as a local preacher, being greatly blessed in 
his work. He has occupied the following 
pastoral charges: Selkirk, County Haldi- 
mand, Albion West, Prince Albert, Claremont, 
and the People s Methodist Church, Toronto. 
Mr. Dobson has been examiner on the Board 
for probationers, and has been secretary of Dis 
tricts, and on Conference committees. He 
has never aspired to the higher positions in 
the church, being thoroughly devoted to 
pastoral and congregational work. He was 
married June 3oth, ^77, to Jennie 1 1., daughter 
of David Hopper, of Victoria Square. 


344 


Mi . \ OF CANADA. 


"|JDWIX RICHARD REYNOLDS, bar 
rister, Toronto, was born July izth, 
~"^J&gt; 1856, near Meaford, Out. He re 
ceived his education at the public school and 
at Collingwood Collegiate Institute. In 1878 
he began the study of law with James J. 
Robertson, Owen Sound, and subsequently 
with John Hoskin, Q.C., and finished bjs 
course with F. M. Morson, now Junior Judge 
of York County. He was called to the Bar in 
1884 and began the practice of his profession 
in Toronto. He was the means of re-estab 
lishing the Law School, founded by the late 
John Hillyard Cameron, but which was dis 
continued about the j-ear 1878. He petitioned 
the Law Society to re-establish this school, and 
ceded in accomplishing it, and to-day it is 
the chief seat of learning for the law students 
tntario. Mr. Reynolds is an adherent of 
Bond Street Congregational Church. He is 
in politics a Conservative, and is an earnest 
ad\ Imperial Federation, and is well 

versed in all the leading ]x&gt;litical iue-.tio:: 
the day. lie w.is married in issj to Matti- 
Finrh, of Toronto. 


REA DICKSON, M.D., C.M., 
was 1x&gt;rn in Kingston, Out., December 
1 6th, 1858, of Irish parents. His 
father, one of the chief surgeons of his day, 
was amongst the founders of the Royal 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, 
and of the Medical Council of Ontario, and 
its first president. Dr. Dickson was educated 
at Kingston Collegiate Institute, and entered 
the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons 
in 1876, graduated from University of Queen s 
College in 1880, spent a year at the Medical 
Department of the University of the t-ity of 
New York, taking the collegiate as well 
the post-graduate course, receiving the dc; 
of M.I), in 1881, and attending at the same 
time private courses on Clinical Examinations 
by Prof. W. H. Thomson, M.D. Hi- l&gt;&lt; 
practice on Wolfe Island in i-vsj. removed to 
Kingston in 1 886, and to Toronto in 1889. 
Having paid &gt;-peeial attention to medical and 
surgical electricity, he was appointed Klectro- 
Therapeutist to Ton&gt;nt ital 

and to . Hospital fc,- iiildretl. 

The doctor is in religion a Presbyterian. 


OF- CANADA. 


345 


\\/ILLIAM BUCK- 

V &gt; INGHAM was 

born in Devonshire, Eng., 
on the 3rd of December, 
1832. He was trained to 
the printing, publishing and 
bookselling business, and 
at an early age became as 
sociated with leading news 
papers in the North of Eng 
land as shorthand writer. 
Coming to Canada in 1857, 
he was appointed on the 
parliamentary staff of the 
Toronto Globe. He main 
tained his connection with 
journalism in Canada as 
reporter, editor, proprietor 
of the Stratford Beacon and 
other well known papers 
until 1873, when he accept 
ed the office of secretary to 
the Dominion Prime Minis 
ter. Meanwhile he had 
undertaken, with a friend, 
the enterprise of establish 
ing at the Red River the 
first newspaper (The Nor" 1 - 
Wesicr) published in that 
then lone land. This was 
in 1860, when the press, 
type and every other print 
ing requisite had to be taken to Fort 
Garry from the nearest point at St. 
Paul by ox teams. In other ways Mr. 
Iluckingham has made his personality 
felt. Twice he has been deputed to 
England first in the capacity of 
official reporter to the Colonial Con 
ference to arrange for Confederation, 
and next on immigration business of 
the Ontario Government. He subse 
quently declined the chief agency of 
that province in London, as well as the 
office of Inspector of Prisons and 
Public Charities. He has filled leading 
positions in the Canadian Press Associa 
tion, and in the various municipal, 


* 


trade, educational, local railway, hospi 
tal, church (Episcopal), and other or 
ganizations of Stratford, in which city he- 
has chiefly made his home. He was a 
commissioner for enquiry into the 
management of city post offices while 
secretary to the Postmaster-General in 
1862. When Mr. Mackenxie s Govern 
ment went out in 1878, Mr. Bucking 
ham received from Lord Dufferin a 
commission under the great seal as 
Deputy Minister of the Interior, which 
Sir John Macdonald revoked after Lord 
Dufferin had left Canada. Sir John 
offered an inferior office in lieu. This 
he declined with indignity. 


346 


\1 1 . N OF ^ AN \I A 


=^TXONALD B. FRASER, M.D., 
) Stratford, Out., was born in 
September, 1848, in North 
Easthope township, Count}- of Perth. 
He received his education, for the most 
part, at the public school, and applied 
himself with such /eal and persever 
ance that, when very young, he obtained 
a first-class county certificate. He then 
attended the Normal School, and suc- 
dcd iii obtaining a second-class cer 
tificate, and then taught for about 
six years, most of this time being spent 
in his native township. In the- year 
1X71 he commenced his professional 
education at Trinity Medical Coll 


Toronto. In iS74 lie gra 
duated from tin- latter insti 
tution and from Toronto 
University, carrying off \ 
ijold medal from both insti 
tutions. He tlu-n went t&lt;&gt; 
Europe and spent some time 
in visiting the leading hos 
pitals there in order to fur 
ther perfect himself in his 
profession. While there he 
spent nearly two years in 
St. Thomas Hospital, Lon 
don. After this he took a 
trip to Australia as surgeon 
on a vessel, and spent some 
time in that colony. In 
1876 he returned to Canada 
and commenced his profes 
sion at Stratford, where he 
still continues. Since settling 
there he has built up a pro 
fitable business, which con 
tinues to increase. He is 
held in high esteem by the 
medical profession, as well 
as by all other classes in 
the community, being one 
of Stratford s most respected 
citizens. Dr. Fraser is one 
of the professors of the 
London Medical School, 
being lecturer in Histology and Path 
ology. He has been one of the ex 
aminers of Toronto University for the 
past six years, and is at the present 
time an examiner in Trinity Colic 
In addition to his extensive practice, 
he is also medical examiner for several 
life assurance societies. He is a scholar 
ly man, and well qualified to fill the 
many offices he holds in his own city 
and elsewhere. Dr. Fraser was mar 
ried in January, 1888, t&lt;&gt; Miss Kmily 
McCulloch, by whom he has I 
children a son and a daughter. He 
is an adherent of the I : : ian 

Church. 


IVIKX OK CANADA. 


347 


&lt;TNEV. JOHN JAMES, 
\\ D.D., "Craig Villa," 
Y&gt; Walkerton, Out., 
was born on the i4th of 
October, 1825, near Dum 
barton Castle, Scotland. 
His humble pious parents 
often sat at the Lord s table 
when three of their sons 
were officiating elders and 
two were ministers, the 
youngest of whom is Rev. 
G. F. James, Bristo Church, 
Edinburgh. Three grand 
sons are also ministers. 
Onr subject s school days 
were very limited, and in a 
great measure he was self- 
educated, until entering 
Glasgow University in 1850. 
At nine years of age he 
went to work in his father s 
shop, and at twelve was ap 
prenticed to tailoring. He 
soon became head of the 
well-known firm of J. & D. 
James, afterwards changed 
to D. & E. James, clothiers, 
Argyle street, Glasgow. 
He took a full arts course 
while in active business, 
studied theology in U. P. 
Divinity Hall, Edinburgh, was licensed 
to preach in 1857, an ^ designated to 
the Canadian field. Shortly after ar 
riving in Canada he was ordained pastor 
of what is now Central Presbyterian 
Church, Gait, was afterwards pastor of 
Dumfries Street Church, Paris. He 
then returned to Europe and became 
pastor of Merridale Road Church, 
Wolverhampton, Eng. Returning to 
Canada, he was intercepted and called 
to State Street Presbyterian Church, 
Albany, N.Y. We quote the following 
from "Origin and Growth of Presby- 
teriauism in Albany " : " From 1871 it 
had six flourishing years under the 


Rev. John James, D.D., a man of 
Scotch birth and breeding, positive 
character, decided influence, and an 
able preacher. He did good work for 
Christ." Dr. James was married on 
the 3 1st of December, 18.45, to Agues 
Craig, near Glasgow. In 187.} he re 
ceived the degree of D.D. from Union 
University, Scheiic-etady, N.Y. In 
1877 he accepted a call to Knox 
Church, Hamilton, where he remained 
eight years, when he resigned with the 
intention of retiring, but was invited to 
go to Walkerton to unite the two 
churches there. Here a most pros 
perous pastorate lias been enjoyed. 


MI.N OF CANADA- 


J- 


AMES B. HOLT, hardware mer- 
cliant, Brantford, Out., was 
born on the aoth June, 1837, 
at Walsall, Staffordshire, Eng. He 
received his education at the public 
schools of England. His boyhood days 
were spent on his father s farm, and at 
an early age he was apprenticed to the 
trade of gold and silver-plating, at 
which he served seven years. On the 
i ration of his apprenticeship, he 
was employed as foreman in the estab 
lishment in which he learned the busi- 
maining in this capacity for ten 
years. 1 11 iSo&lt;) IK- came V&gt; Canada 
and settled first at London, Out., 


where he worked at his 
trade for one year. 1 Ie then 
removed to In-i-r^oll and 
started business for himself 
as .yold and silver-plater. 
While there he was v 
successful, doing work for 
the largest carriage manu 
facturers throughout the 
Province of Ontario. Being 
ambitious, and wishing t&lt;&gt; 
find a broader sphere for his 
energies, he removed to 
Brantford in the year iS 
and opened an establish 
ment in his own line of 
business, namely, that of 
gold and silver-plating. 
After a time he engaged 
in the carriage hard\\ 
business, and afterwards 
branched out into a general 
hardware trade. B} energy, 
perseverance and diligent 
attention to business, he lias 
become one of Brantford s 
most successful merchants, 
and has accumulated a con 
siderable amount of money. 
His success has come from 
a thorough knowledge of 
his business, a strict integ 
rity in all his dealings, and the pleas 
ing manner in which he always nit 
his customers. Mr. Holt is a public- 
spirited man, and has been alderman 
of the city. He is a member and 
trustee of the Methodist Church, and 
a member of the Society of th&lt;- Sons 
of England. He is a thoroughly 
liable man and much respected by all 
ses. He was married &lt;&gt;n the otli 
November, 1859, to Mi&gt;s Caroline 
White, a native of "Walsall, England. 
They have had born to them live chil 
dren" ,, I1C son and a dan-liter having 

away, and two sons an&lt;: 
dan till livi:: 


MEN OF* 


349 


. 


BY. J. WESLEY SAVAGE, 
Bond Head, Out., was born in 

_s&gt; 1829 in Yorkshire, England. 
He was educated at Woodhouse Grove 
Academy, which was started in the 
time of John Wesley for the education 
of Wesleyan ministers sons. On leav 
ing school he concluded to study medi 
cine with his brother, but, on his con 
version, at once decided to study theo 
logy. He first thought of offering 
himself as a missionary to China, and, 
under the advice of the Rev. Dr. 
Hannah, was making arrangements to 
attend one of the Wcsleyan colleges to 
study the Chinese language, when his 


father, a Wesleyan minis 
ter, wished and advised his 
son to follow him in the 
regular work of the minis 
try, hence the idea of going 
to China was abandoned. 
In 1854 he came to Canada 
and entered the ministry of 
the Methodist Church. His 
first circuit was Warwick. 
He has since then occupied 
the following circuits : 
London, Prince Albert, Port 
Perry, Uxbridge, Orange- 
ville, Albion, Glanford, Stir 
ling, Aurora, and others. 
Mr. Savage s pastorate on 
each circuit has been fol 
lowed by great revivals of 
religion. He has on differ 
ent circuits had twelve camp 
meetings in charge. On 
eight of the previous cir 
cuits occupied, he remained 
the full term of three years, 
and this year was returned 
to his present charge for the 
third year by special request 
of the Quarterly Board. 
Mr. Savage has been finan 
cial secretary on two dis 
tricts, this being his sixth 
the Bradford District. In 
was a delegate to London, 
Ehig.,to the Memorial Centennial Sab 
bath School Conference, and the un 
veiling of "Raikes" monument. Mr. 
Savage has been twice married first, 
in September, 1853, to 1C. Cooper, of 
Ripon, Kng., and again, in 1880, to 
Jennie McFarland, of Toronto. He is 
a writer of considerable ability, and 
has contributed to different papers and 
periodicals. He is now engaged on a 
literary work entitled "Distinguished 
Characters of Bible and Ecclesiastical 
History," which is regarded as his life 
work. 


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MI x OF 


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\^s ( )nt., \vas horn 
i&gt;n the i i tli (if March, iS.}2. 
I Ie is the eldest of seven 
brothers, five of whom en 
tered the ministry of the 
Presbyterian Church. From 
the age of sixteen until 
twenty-three, he taught 
school in Oxford Count)-. 
On the ist October, 1863, 
he was married to Amelia 
Jane, daughter of Joshua 
Youngs, a man greatly be 
loved for his many .Stirling 
qualities by all who knew 
him. Mr. McKay graduated 
in Toronto University in 
1869, standing first in the 
honor list in Oriental lan 
guages, and taking a high 
place among the honor men 
in the department of Logic, 
Metaphysics and Ethics. 
In 1870 he graduated in 
Knox College, and was 
licensed by the Toronto 
Presbytery to preach the 
Gospel. In Decemlx?r of 
the same year he was or 
dained and inducted into 
the pastoral charge of Cheltenham and 
Mount Pleasant, where he had labored 
for two years previous as a student. 
On the 4th November, 1873, he was 
translated to the pastorate of Baltimore 
and Cold Springs in the Presbytery of 
Peterboro. In May, 1878, he became 
pastor of Chalmers Church, Wood 
stock, and in this large and important 
congregation he has since continued 
t&lt;&gt; labor with fidelity and great suc- 
In addition to his pastoral labors, 
Mr. McKay takes an active interest in 
all public questions of the day. Per 
haps no clergyman in the land has 
done mon -vork on the plat 


form and through the press for tin 
cause of temperance and moral reform. 
Mr. McKay is the author of several 
well-known works, and is a constant 
contributor to the press. His book, 
" Outpourings of the Spirit," is pub 
lished by the Presbyterian Board, Phil 
adelphia, and is widely circulated in 
the United States. His best known 
work in this country is " A Discussion 
of Baptism from the Paedo-Baptist 
Standpoint." This book has reached a 
Canadian circulation in a few years of 
twdvi- thousand &lt; Mr. McKav 

is in the vigor of his manhood and 
! promise of much future ser\ 


OF- CANADA. 


V 


JONATHAN WILKINSON, of 
St. Thomas, was born near Hali 
fax, Yorkshire, Eng., in 1827. 
His father was a Yorkshire farmer. 
Pie was educated in Manchester, and at 
the age of twenty-one came to the 
United States as amanuensis to a 
literary gentleman, with whom lie 
travelled over the continent. On his 
return to England he published an 
account of his rambles, which was 
highly spoken of by the press. Com 
ing to Canada in 1856, he settled in 
Hamilton, and was engaged as short 
hand reporter and city editor of the 
Morning ]i&lt;i&gt;ni&lt;-r. During the parlia 


mentary sessions in Toron 
to, he went each da}- and re 
turned at midnight with the 
reports, which were publish 
ed in next morning s issue. 
In 1858 Mr. Wilkinson pur 
chased the Guelph Adver 
tiser from the Hon. A. I. 
Fergusson Blair, and con 
tinued it for thirteen years, 
during which time he began 
the publication of the daily. 
He then removed to Hamil 
ton and started the Morning 
Standard. After two years 
he went to St. Thomas, 
where he began the Times, 
first as a bi-weekly, and 
afterwards, in 1882, as a 
daily. The paper has now 
a very large circulation in 
the adjoining counties. In 
1887-88 Mr. Wilkinson visit 
ed the Pacific Coast and 
published a series of letters 
under the title of " Rambles 
in California," containing 
sketches of the principal 
points of interest in the 
Golden State, and its min 
ing, agricultural and horti 
cultural industries, includ 
ing also Utah and Colorado. He spent 
the summer of 1889 in England and 
Scotland, and published another series 
of sketches, including the ancient cathe 
drals of England, and the famous 
haunts and homes of Scott and Hums 
and other celebrities. These, like Mr. 
A\ ilkinson s former efforts, were highly 
appreciated. He is a member of tli e 
Scientific and Historic Society of 
Klgin, and takes a deep interest in its 
work. In politics he is a Liberal- 
Conservative, but not a Tory, as the 
term is gem-rally applied. He was 
married in 1852 to Agnes Luck, of 
Bedfordshire, Eng. 


Mi \ &lt; ] CANADA. 


\\7lIXIAM SCOTT. 
&gt; V M.D.. \Y,,,,(U..ck. 
( &gt;nt., the oldest physician 
in the- County &lt; :&lt;!, 
was born November 2-i\\, 
: Kxcriiisjiani, York 
shire-, Kng. His parents 
came to Canada in the year 
1830 and settled in Oxford 
County, where the subject 
of onr sketch aided in clear 
ing two farms. \Yhile work 
ing on the farm he was a 
diligent student, all hjs 
spare time being devoted to 
study. At length he articled 
himself to Dr. J. Samuel 
Stratford, \Yoodstock, and 
commenced the stud}- of 
medicine. At the end of 
five years, in the year 1848, 
he successfully passed his 
examinations in the Medi 
cal Department of Toronto 
University. He at once 
began to practice in \Yood- 
stock, where he has conti 
nued ever since, and enjoys 
the confidence of all classes 
of the community. In 1868 
he received the honor degree 
of Doctor of Medicine from 
the Medical College at Castleton, U.S. 
Dr. Scott has been very successful in 
his practice. He has made a specialty 
of the diseases of women and mid- 
, wifery, having had of the latter the ex 
traordinary number of about eight 
thousand cases in his practice of forty- 
two years. He now does an office 
business exclusively, and such is his 
fame far and wide as a specialist, that 
patients eoine to him from long dis 
tances in Canada, and from the United 
well. He has filled a most 
important place in the community in 
which he ha- long, and has 

by his wisdom and skill brought re 


lief to thousands of homes. Dr. Scott 
has strong inventive ability, and has 
invented a number of surgical instru 
ments, some of which have been 
strongly commended by medical facul 
ties. He was surgeon in the 2 2nd 
Battalion Volunteer Oxford Rifles for 
a number of years, and has been one 
&lt;&gt;f the coroners for the County 
Oxford for many years. In religion 
he is a member of the Church of 
Kn^land. The doctor has been tv 
married first to M -all M. 

:,ins, of I .urford, who died in 
and he was again married in i ^ -t&gt; to 
lizabetfa H. Martin. P.lcnhcim. 


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CANADA. 


353 


GEO. WM. BURTON, 
Senior Puisne Judge of the 
Court of Appeal, Toronto, 
was born July 2 ist, 1818, at Sandwich, 
County of Kent, Eng., being the second 
son of the late Admiral George Guy 
Ilurton, Royal Navy, of Chatham, Eng. 
Our subject received his education in 
the old land under the Rev. Dr. 
Whiston. He came to Canada in 1836 
and commenced the study of law with 
his uncle, Edmund Burton. He was 
called to the Bar in 1841, and began 
the practice of his profession at Hamil 
ton. He was appointed a Bencher, and 
subsequently twice elected. He was 


created a Q.C. in 1863, and in 1874 
was raised to the Bench. Judge Burton 
has given several decisions in very im 
portant cases upon constitutional ques 
tions of general interest, which involve 
far-reaching results. Justice Burton 
was married June gth, 1850, to Eliza 
beth^, daughter of the late. Dr. Perkins, 
of Ealmouth, Jamaica, and niece and 
adopted daughter of the late Col. Chas. 
Cranstan Dixon, of H. M. goth Regi 
ment. His family consists of six chil 
dren four daughters and two sons, 
one of the latter being a barrister at 
Hamilton, and the other a barrister in 
Toronto. 


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MEN OF- CANADA. 


EV. J. CRAGG FARTHING, 
\\ M.A., rector of the parish of 
V&gt; Woodstock, Out., was born 
December I3th, 1861, at Cincinnati, 
Ohio. He received his early education 
at Parkfield School, Liverpool. After 
this he attended Gonville & Cains 
College, Cambridge University, Eng 
land, and graduated B.A. in 1885 with 
honors. He then came to Canada and 
was ordained to the ministry of the 
Knglish Church. He was ordained 
deacon in 1885 by Bishop Baldwin, and 
was appointed t&lt;&gt; the parish of Durham. 
Grey County. He was ordained to the 
priesthood in 1880. and, in 1888, was 


appointed curate at Woodstock, and sub 
sequently rector. He received the 
degree of M.A. in 1888. Mr. Farthing 
is a member of the Executive Commit 
tee of the diocese of Huron, a member 
of the Masonic and I.O. F. frater 
nities, being chaplain of Woodstock 
Court. He was General Secretary of 
the Cambridge University Church of 
Kn^land Temperance Society, and a 
member of the Ely Dioce.san Tern; 
ance Committee. Mr. Farthing \vas 
married in September, 1891, t&lt;&gt; Kli/a- 
l&gt;eth Maiy, daughter of John C. Kemp. 
manager of the Bank of C&lt;&gt;mm&lt; : 
Toronto. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


355 


&lt;7*)OBERT LOGAN, of 
JV Seaforth, Ont., was 
* V born at Paris, 
County of Brant, on the 
I4th of June, 1851. His 
early educational training 
was received at the public 
school, Paris, and Gait Cen 
tral School, and continued 
at Eastman s National Bu 
siness College, Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y. He graduated 
from the latter institution 
in 1867, an d started busi 
ness life as a book-keeper 
in a mercantile house at 
Hamilton. After this he 
worked for a time in his 
father s mill at Wolverton. 
In the year 1871 he settled 
in Seaforth, where he was 
engaged in the grain busi 
ness for a number of years. 
In 1879 he went to Portage 
la Prairie, Manitoba, and 
engaged in speculating. He 
then went to Edmonton, 
N.W.T., where he remained 
only a short time, and re 
turned to Portage la Prairie. 
After remaining here some 
time, he removed to Car- 
berry, Manitoba, and engaged in the 
triple business of lumber, grain and 
banking. In the latter business he 
had remarkable success and accumu 
lated considerable money. Through 
too close attention to business his health 
broke down and he went to Banff, 
X.W.T., to get the benefit of the 
sulphur springs there. This change, 
however, did not restore him to health, 
and on the advice of his physicians he 
came back to Ontario to get the benefit 
of his native air and the professional 
skill of the province. Notwithstanding 
the fact that he was pronounced incur 
able, under the skillful treatment of 


Dr. J. E. Graham, of Toronto, he has 
been restored to his former health and 
vigor. He now conducts a successful 
private banking business in the to\vu 
of Seaforth, where he enjoys the esteem 
and confidence of the community. Mr. 
Logan married Miss Charlotte Brent, 
daughter of the late Dr. Brent, of 
Toronto, on the gth of June, 1885, by 
whom he has two sons. He is ai; ad 
herent of the Presbyterian Church. 
His mother, who is in her seventy- 
fifth year, is still living. She is a 
godly woman, and has been a member 
of the Presbyterian Church since child 
hood. 


MI.N OP CANAMA 


JOHN CAMPBELL, M.D.,C.M., 
(McGill). L.R.C. P., (Edin 
burgh), of Seaforth, Ont., was 
born in North Sherbrooke, Lanark 
Count} , on the xoth of February, 1839. 
His parents were natives of Scotland, 
who came to Canada in the year 1821. 
The subject of our sketch received 
such an education as the public schools 
of his day afforded. He worked on his 
father s farm and attended school until 
twelve years of age, when he entered a 
dry goods store in St. Mary s, and 
afterwards was employed in similar 
establishments elsewhere. He wearied 
of the life of a clerk, and studied for a 


teacher s certificate, and was 
successful iu obtaining a 
ond-class LM ade "A at 
the Normal School in i.S6z. 
He then taught school in 
r-liomc and Blenheim. II - 
was a strong advocate of 
temperance, and soon 
vealed that he possessed un 
usual platform ability. He 
then began the study of 
medicine with Dr. Philip, of 
Plattsville, now of Brant- 
ford. In 1866 he entered 
McGill College, from which 
he graduated in 1869. After 
receiving his diploma he 
commenced to practice in 
Seaforth, and has continued 
there since in the enjoyment 
of a large and profitable 
patronage. Dr. Campbell 
has always taken a leading 
part in all matters pertain 
ing to the improvement of 
Seaforth. He was a mem 
ber of the High School 
Board, is president of the 
Mechanics Institute, mem 
ber of the Masonic frater 
nity, of the I.O.O.F.,of the 
C.O.F., the R.T. of T., and 
of the Y.M.C.A. He is also a member 
of the Ontario and Dominion Medical 
Associations, and stands high in his 
profession. He was chief of the Cale 
donian Society of Seaforth for two years. 
In 1884 he published his little book, 
" The Land of Burns," which was 
favorably received by both press and 
people. He frequently lectures on 
Burns and Scottish literature for the 
Caledonian, St. Andrew s, and other 
Scottish societies, and has a serie- 

v interesting lectures on th&gt; 
Sco ttish poet. He was married on the 
1 4th of May, 1872, to Jane Laird. 
Havsville, Out. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


357 


\\/nl 


ILUAM HENRY SHAW, of 
* &gt; Stratford, Out., was born on 
the ist of April, 1858, in the township 
of Camden , Kent County. He received 
his early education at the public school, 
and by steady application and perse 
verance, succeeded in obtaining a third- 
class certificate when only seventeen 
years of age. He began teaching in 
1875, which he continued until 1883, 
with the exception of from April to 
July, i87g, when in attendance at the 
Normal School, Toronto. He secured 
a second-class professional certificate 
from this institution, having passed 
non-professional in 1878 while teach 


ing. After this he gave up 
public school work and ac 
cepted a position as teacher 
in the Canada Business Col 
lege, Chatham, where he 
remained until December, 
1886. He then withdrew 
from this institution and 
established the Central Busi 
ness College in Stratford. 
This school was opened for 
the reception of students in 
January, 1887, and has since 
grown to a foremost position 
among the business colleges 
of the Dominion. The at 
tendance each succeeding 
year has increased from 
twenty-two and one-half to 
forty-three per cent., and 
now has representatives from 
all parts of the Dominion 
and from the United States. 
This success is due to the 
ability and popularity of 
the principal, and to the 
efforts of himself and his 
excellent staff of assistants 
to do the very best work 
possible for the students. 
His school is now thorough 
ly and permanently estab 
lished, and is an influential factor 
among our educational institutions, as 
it has no superior in its particular line 
of work. Mr. Shaw is a member of 
the Methodist Church. He was trustee 
of \Yesley Church, Raleigh, and is now 
choir master of the Central Methodist 
Church, Stratford, also a member of 
the Official Board of the latter 
church. He is doing a grand work, 
not only in the line of his profes 
sion, but also in the church. He 
was married on the ist of January, 
1878, to Miss Charlotte J. ( .ill. of the 
township of Raleigh, County of Kent, 
Ontario. 


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,AXIKI, ROSS VAX 
AI.I.KX. of Chat 
ham, Out., presi 
dent and manager ,,f the 
Chatham Manufacturing 
Company, was born on the 
27th of December, 1823, in 
Burford township, Oxford 
County. When he was five 
years of age his father re 
moved to Port Dover and 
engaged in farming. Here 
the subject of our sketch 
received such education as 
the public school afforded. 
In 1833 he went to live 
with his uncle in Chatham, 
Captain Henry Van Allen, 
who was engaged in mer 
cantile business there, with 
whom he remained until 
1838, when he started out to 
do for himself. From this 
time until 1845 he was em 
ployed as clerk in various 
country stores. In 1845 he 
managed a store for a Chat 
ham firm, at the point where 
the town of Dresden now 
is. While here, being im 
pressed with the eligibility 
of the location as being de 
sirable for a town, he purchased a lot 
of land, upon which he founded what 
is now the flourishing town of Dresden. 
He carried on business extensively 
here until 1849. He then removed to 
Chatham, where he engaged in the 
mercantile business, which he conti 
nued until 1858, when he abandoned 
this business and embarked in the 
manufacture of hardwood lumber, in 
which he has continued since with 
marked success. In 1882, after the 
adoption of the National Policy, Mr. 
Van Allen formed a Joint Stock Com 
pany for the manufacture of farm 
gons, of which the Chatham Manufac- 


turing Company is the result. In 
1862 he exhibited, at his own expense, 
at the World s Fair, London, Eng., a 
lot of planks of timber, being speci 
mens of the growth and varieties 
wood in the vicinity of Chatham. He 
was awarded the highest prize in that 
exhibition for this remarkable display. 
Mr. Van Allen was for many y 
school trustee, councillor, reeve, de 
puty reeve, and for one year mayor of 
Chatham, all of which offices he tilled 
with ability. In politics he is a Con 
servative. He is an active man, and 
has contributed largely to the material 
prosperity of that .section. 


MEN OR CAXADA. 


359 


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AMES BENSON WHITELEY, 
M.D., C.M., and M.C.P. and S., 
Goderich, Out., was born on 
October 8th, 1857, at Goderich. He 
was educated at the school of his native 
town, and after taking a second-class 
certificate "A" in 1876, taught at Port 
Albert, Out. He then attended Toronto 
University in 1878, and afterwards 
studied at the Toronto School of Medi 
cine, where he graduated in 1882. Dur 
ing his course he took honors in ana 
tomy, physiology and the practice of 
medicine. lie then took charge of Dr. 
Park s practice at Milvcrton, and after 
wards of Dr. Morton s practice at \\e\- 


lesley, Out. In 1886 he began prac 
tice in Goderich, and has remained 
there since. Dr. \Yhiteley is popular 
with the profession and the community 
at large. He has been deputy reeve and 
member of the Council for three years. 
In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative, 
and an adherent of the Methodist Cli urch , 
a member of the I.O.O.F., I. O.K. and 
A.O.U.W., and attending physician for 
these societies. He is also sole exa 
miner for the Canada Life, the Manu 
facturers Life, and the London and 
Lancashire Assurance Companies. Ik- 
was married on August i8th, iSSh, to 
Miss Percy Fisher, of Goderich. 


MIX OF MANAMA. 


G^= 
EORGE DRUMMOND.manager 
of the Bank of Montreal, 
Goderich, Out., was born in Kingston 
on the 8th of February, 1851, where 
his father carried on business as a 
wholesale grocer. He was educated at 
private schools and the Upper Canada 
College, entering the latter when only 
it years old. After seven years 
study in that institution, he entered 
the "Bank of Montreal, Toronto, and 
lias continued his connection with the 
bank ever since, occupying every 
subordina; ion up to that of 

ma: He has been connected with 

the branches at Toronto, Peterboro, 


Chicago, Montreal, Kingston and 
Hamilton, and has occupied his present 
position in Goderich since 1886. Mr. 
Drummond is an exceedingly affable 
and genial man of thorough bush: 
habits, and has made the bank which he 
represents exceedingly popular in Code- 
rich and the surrounding country. 1 Ii-- 
success in banking is owing t-&gt; his 
adaptation to that business. I Ie 
is ; rt and ardent cricketer and 

fond of the grand old Knglish game. 
In religion Mr. I)rnmmond is a I 1 - 
byterian. He is unmarried, having 
his mother and sister residing with 
him. 


CANADA. 


361 


JOHNJUCHEREAU 
KINGSMILL, M. A., 
D.C.L., Judge of the 
Count} of Bruce, Walker- 
tou, Ont., was born in the 
city of Quebec on the 2ist 
of May, 1829. He is of 
Irish descent, and belongs 
to a noted military family. 
His grandfather was Major 
Kingsmill, of the ist Royal 
Regiment, and his father 
was Colonel William Kings- 
mill, who came to Canada 
early in the second quarter 
of this century. Judge 
Kingsmill, our subject, was 
educated at Upper Canada 
College, the University of 
Toronto, from which he re 
ceived the degree of B.A., 
and Trinity College, from 
which he received the de 
grees of M.A. and D.C.L. 
He commenced the practice 
of law at Guelph in the year 
1853, and was for many 
years partner of the late 
Hon. Adam Ferguson Blair. 
Pie was County Crown At 
torney from 1856 until 1866, 
and during his residence 
there was very active in volunteer mat- 


daughter of George J. Grange, formerly 


ters. In 1867, on the separation of Sheriff of the County of Wellington. 

Bruce from Huron, he was appointed She was killed by accident in 1860. 

Judge of the County of Bruce, which He was married a second time in iS6r 

position he has held since. He is cool to Julia, eldest daughter of Hon. W. 

and impartial in his judgments, and H. Dickson, Senator, Niagara. She 

his charges to a jury are very clear died in 1869. He again married in 

and emphatic, and fills this high office 1871 Caroline Louise, eldest daughter 

with ability and dignity appropriate of Samuel Perm Stokes, of Windsor, 

to the position. In religion he is a who has since died, and in 1884 he 

member of the English Church, has married for the fourth lime Agnes 

been a delegate to the Synod of Huron Caroline Grace, daughter of the late 

for years, and also a delegate to the Lieut. -Colonel Bernard, of the i^th 

Provincial Synod, Montreal. Judge Hussars, ami grand-daugh 1 the 

Kingsmill has been married four times late Samuel P. J.-irvis, Esq., of Toronto. 

first, in 1854, to Ellen Diana, eldest He has a large family. 


Mi \ OF v- AN \i &gt;.\. 


M. BUCHART, of 
Owen Sound, Out., was born in 
Dundee, Scotland, in 1827. He re 
ceived his earl} training in that 
town, and then became an apprentice 
to the business of tinsmith. He then 
came to Canada, landing in Quebec 
in 1845. After spending some time 
in fish packing in Miramichi, he 
came to Toronto, and finally reached 
11 Sound. He began by making 
and selling tinware, and, after a pro 
fitable eighteen months stay, went 
t&lt;&gt; Indiana, U.S.. where he remained 
nine months, and then returned to 
Owen Sound. In he began 


anew as tinsmith, and 
gradually adding to his 
stock, and engaging in 
other lines, increased his 
trade so much that a larger 
building was necessary. 1 1 is 
business made rapid ] 
gress, until the effects of 
the Russian war overtook 
him and he was necessitated 
to suspend payment. In 
stead of compromising, he 
preferred, if time was given, 
to pay in full, which he did, 
with interest added, within 
ten years. Although three 
times burned out, his busi 
ness steadily increased, and 
the handsome building now 
occupied by his sons, is an 
evidence of the success that 
attended him. Mr. Buchart, 
snr., died in 1882, and was 
succeeded by his two sous 
R. P. and D. M as R. P. 
Buchart cc Bro. Under their 
skillful management, the 
stock has been so greatly 
increased and improved, 
that it is now recognized as 
containing the most com 
plete assortment of hard 
ware and electro-plated goods in Western 
Ontario. They are also largely em 
ployed as steam and gas fitters. The 
late Mr. Buchart was a member of the 
Methodist Church and a liberal sup 
porter. In politics he was a Conserva 
tive. He was ensign in the Fenian 
Raid, and afterwards made captain. 
For many years he was a member of 
the Town Council, and as a private 
builder, added greatly to the property 
of the town. Three years belore his 
death he opened a store in Rapid 
City, Manitoba. His wile was Mary, 
youngest daughter of Samuel Chatwin, 

of Birmingham, Kngland. 


CANADA. 


363 


J 


01 IN ALEXANDER BOYD, 
Chancellor of Ontario, and 
President of the High Court 
of Justice for the Province of Ontario, 
was l)orn on the 23rd of April, 1837, 
iu the city of Toronto. His parents 
were John and Margaret McCalhim 
Boyd. His father was educated in 
Glasgow, Scotland, and for sonic time 
after coining to Canada, lie taught the 
school known as Hay Street Academy, 
Toronto. The subject of our sketch 
received careful educational training at 
the hands of his father, and afterwards 
attended 1 pper Canada College and 
Toronto University. He studied law 


and practiced as solicitor and barrister 
from the year 1863 until 1881, when, 
in May of the latter year, he received 
his present appointment. When ele 
vated to this important office, he brought 
to the discharge of his duties a clear 
intellect, a sound understanding of law, 
and a well trained judicial mind, and 
he has attended to its duties with singu 
lar ability and dignity. In religion 
Chancellor I!.&gt;yd is a Baptist. He was 
married in the year 1863 l " Miss Hli/a- 
l)etli, daughter of David lUtchan, late 
Bursar of Toronto University. The 
iruit of this union is a large family of 
sons and daughters. 


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\n x OF CANADA. 


T7 DMUND OLDHAM, M.D., Chats- 
worth, Out., was born on the 
^V^ i ith of July, 1859, at Kidder 
minster, Eng. His father was the late 
Professor John K. Oldham, of Man 
chester, Kng., and Kingston, Out. 
received his early education at Woolwich 
:iml Manchester, and came with his 
parents in 1874 to Niagara Falls, where 
they lived three years, afterwards mov 
ing t. Kingston. He attended 
Collegiate Institute there, and having 
matriculated in medicine, spent lour 
yefl &lt; lueen s University, and gra 

duated with honors in iSSi. Dr. Old- 
ham was the first demonstrator of 


anatomy of the Ladies College in 
Kingston, and also demonstrator to the 
R. C. P. and S. in the session of iSSi. 
He commenced practice at Williams- 
ford, where he remained a year, and 
then removed to Chatsworth, where la- 
has built up a very large and remuner 
ative practice, and is highly n 
by all classes. Dr. ( )ldham is an hpis- 
i-opalian and church warden. In poll- 
he is Conservative and vice-presi 
dent of the North &lt; i cy Conservative 
.ition. He v the 

township in : H- was marned 

June 3rd, iSS.;, to Mary, second daugh 
ter of Alex. Kamagi-. Chesley, Out. 


OF- CANADA. 


365 


-*S^ 

Jr 


LANK DENTON, barrister, of 
Toronto, was born near Rich 
mond Hill, York County, on the 
1 8th of August, 1858. His father, the 
late William Denton, Justice of the 
Peace, came from England to Canada 
in 1850 and settled near Richmond 
Hill as a ocneral merchant. After this 
he removed to Mono Centre, where he 
had a general .store and farm. In 1885 
he came to Toronto, where he resided 
until his death in iSSS. Mr. Denton 
received his education at the Richmond 
Hill High School, the Collino- u - 0( (l Col 
legiate Institute, the Toronto Normal 
School, and Trinity College, where he 


took the degree of B.C.L. 
in 1887. He taught in the 
Orangeville Model School, 
and after that was first 
English master of the 
Cobourg Collegiate Insti 
tute. In 1883 he com 
menced the study of law 
with W. R. Riddell, Esq., 
Cobourg, and afterwards 
studied in Toronto with Mr. 
C. H. Ritchie, Q.C., and 
subsequently with Mr. D. 

B. Read, (XC. He is now 
the senior partner of the 
firm of Denton, Dods & 
Denton, Toronto. On his 
commencing business for 
himself, he at once entered 
upon a large practice. He 
was one of the counsel for 
the city of Toronto in the 
celebrated Toronto Street 
Railway Arbitration, and 
for some time acting first 
assistant city solicitor under 

C. R. \V. Biggar, UC. He 
was in 1890 appointed by 
the City Council of Toronto 
one of a deputation of three 
to visit the leading Ameri 
can cities to secure informa 
tion and study the street railway pro 
blem from a municipal standpoint. 
Mr. Denton is an active member of 
the Broadway Tabernacle Methodist 
Church, Toronto, and has represented 
his church at the Toronto Conference 
and elsewhere. He is an active Liberal 
in politics and a ready and fluent de 
bater. He has succeeded in taking a 
leading place in his profession very 
early in life, and has every prospect 
of a brilliant future before him. In 
1884 Mr. Denton was married to 
Miss Lixxic Clingan, dan-liter of the 
late Fleming Clingan, J.p!, of Orange 
ville. 


366 


MKX 01 ^ ANAI \. 


LATE 

I .ATTI.H was born 
in i$24 in the town of 

.lymote. County Sli, 
Ireland. He came to Canada 
in 1842 and settled at 
Thorold, where he has lived 
continuously, with the ex 
ception of one year, for 
half a century. He com 
menced life as a day laborer 
on the Welland Canal, and 
all through his after life 
looked back with pride to 
the days when he earned 
the munificent sum of 62^ 
cents per day, out of which 
he saved the few dollars 
which gave him the founda 
tion on which he built up a 
competency. His first sav 
ings were invested in a team, 
which he used in towing 
vessels on the canal, again 
saving from this increased 
revenue, he purchased an 
other team, and so on until 
he became known as the 
proprietor of an important 
towing line. Having got 
this business well under 
control, he gave his atten- 


VUlll-lUljli*-^ 11 -*^ . 

tion to other business matters, and 
soon became apparent that John Battle 
was to be ail important factor in the 
commercial prosperity of the com 
munity. In 1860 he became interested 
in shipping, building and owning sev 
eral vessels and tugs, which he managed 
with great success. He was possessed 
of a keen insight in all busines 
matters, and seemed able to forecast 
the future, thereby avoiding many 
by dropping an enterprise when 
it had begun to wane. About one year 
after the estate of the late John Brown 
was wound up, Mr. Battle became sole 
proprietor of the Cement Mills, which. 


under his skillful management, became 
known and patronized in all parts of 
the Dominion. He was almost entire 
ly instrumental in inducing a branch 
of the Canadian Bank of Commerce t-. 
locate in Thorold, and afterwards be 
came a large stockholder in the same. 
His many friends testify that moi 
making did not by any means absorb 
his better nature, and that behind 
what a stranger might call an un 
sympathetic exterior there was a 1. 
tender as a woman s, which n 
turned from a case of m-t-d when pro- 

ciited. He was never acci 
of wron^in^ any man out of a slnll 


MKN 


CANADA. 


367 


RKSIIJKN-CK I.ATI-: JOHN- HATTI.K 


and very frequently gave employment 
to men out of pure kindness of heart 
when his works were more than fully 
manned. In his own family he was 
cherished and reverenced, "receiving 
that deference which his years and 
efforts for their welfare so richly de 
served, and their loving hands were 
permitted to do everything that could 
possibly lengthen his life, or comfort 
his dying hours. For months prior to 
his demise, it was well known that he 
was prostrated by a malady, from 
which he was not expected to recover, 
and he gradually sank until he quietly 
laid down his life work and peacefully 
passed away on the evening of the 
26th of February, 1891, at the age of 
67 years. His funeral was, as might 
be expected, very impressive and con 
ducted in a way befitting his well 
known career. The casket was borne 
by six of his sons, while all along the 
route every respect was shown by the 


citizens; business was suspended, and 
stores and public works were closed, 
the Church of Our Lady of the Holy 
Rosary was crowded by citizens of all 
denominations. The entire services 
were most impressive and thoroughly 
appreciated, and, after a memorable 
sermon by Rev. Dean Harris, of St. 
Catharines, the remains were laid away 
by loving hands. At the first meeting 
of the Town Council after the decease, 
that body took occasion to frame a very 
kindly worded and complimentary re 
solution of sympathy. Wln-n this reso 
lution was moved and seconded, the 
council arose as one man and showed 
with much feeling how heartily they 
endorsed it. Mr. Battle was married 
in 1851 to Cecilia, daughter of Patrick 
and Margaret (Mualonald) CulU-n at 
the old historic town of Xiagara. There 
were born to them ten sons and two 
daughters, all of whom survive but one 
son. 


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\1 I N OF C AN \l &gt; \. 


4 T EXRY RICHARDS, of the 
T T~\ firm of Richards Bros., 504 
V Yonge street, Toronto, was 
born on the i2th of August, 1841, at 
Birmingham, Hug. He is a son of 
Abram Richards, of Greet, in the same 
comity. He received his early educa 
tion iii Birmingham in his native land, 
and while yet a mere youth, entered 
tin.- employ of a gas and steam fitting 
ablishment He came to Canada in 
island settled in Toronto. In : 
he entered into partnership with his 
brother Alfred in the plumbing, steam 
an .ting business, and succeeded 

in building up a large trade. Mr. 


Richards is in every respect a self- 
madc man, and is thoroughly coir 
sant with true business pnncipl* 
religion he is a Baptist, and takes an 
active part in the work of Emanuel 
Church. He is also Past ( .rand Master 
of the Canadian Order of Odd I-Yllows. 
Manchester Unity, and a member 
the Kxecutive Board, and is also a 
member of the Masonic &lt; )nk-r. the 
Royal Arcanum, etc. In politics he i 
;l C ative and a true son ot Ins 

adopted country. He was married on 

the isth of Decembi the- 

vine Hurley, daughter of \Vm. Hnr 
Glouct 


MEN 


CANADA. 


3 6 9 


v. ALEX. D. MCDONALD, 

of the Presbyterian Church, 
&gt; Seaforth, Out., was born on 
the Qth of November, 1832, in the 
Citadel, Quebec. His father was band 
master in the jgth Regiment, and was 
present at the battles of Coruuua and 
Waterloo. After leaving the army he 
received a pension and a grant of land 
in the County of Durham, and died 
shortly after the close of the Rebellion, 
when Alexander, the subject of our 
sketch, was hardly eight years old. 
On his father s death, Alexander lived 
with a farmer until he was 18. He 
then began study, and atfcjjded the 


Toronto Academy, then 
under the charge of Prof. 
Gale. He alternated his 
studies by working on a 
farm, and taught school in 
Blenheim in 1853 and 1854, 
and was employed as a 
student catechist in 1855 at 
Westport and Xewburgh, 
and in 1856 and 1857 at 
Collingwood and Bradford. 
After completing his theo 
logical studies at Knox Col 
lege, Toronto, he was assist 
ant to the late Dr. Bayne, 
of Gait. Having been duly 
licensed by the Hamilton 
Presbytery, he was ordained 
pastor of Willis Church, 
Clinton, in 1859, and in 
1869 he was settled as 
pastor of Knox Church, 
Elora, and in 1879 inducted 
as pastor of his present 
charge in Seaforth. For 
eight years he was clerk of 
the Huron Presbytery, was 
Moderator of the Synod of 
Hamilton and London in 
1883, and has also been 
Superintendent of Public 
Schools in Clinton and the 
township of Tuckersmith, and chair 
man of the Seaforth High School 
Board. In 1880 Mr. McDonald tra 
velled extensively in Great Britain, 
and in 1882 and 1887 in Manitoba and 
the North-West. Mr. McDonald was 
married June 23rd, 1859, to Agnes 
Cavan, daughter of James Cavaii, of 
Paris, Out. Four of his sons are em 
ployed in wholesale houses in Winni 
peg and one in Detroit. He has been 
a diligent, laborious and successful 
pastor in all the charges in which Ju 
lias labored and greatly beloved by his 
people. His pulpit ministrations bear 
evidence of thorough preparation. 


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MEN 


CANADA. 


ML- DONALD 
GRAY. Sea forth, 
Out , was born on the loth 
November, .t Comrie, 

.land. He received his 
primary education at the 
public school there, and 
completed it under private 
tutors in Glasgow. He 
commenced business life in 
the wholesale mercantile 
business in Glasgow, which 
he continued until 1865, 
when he came to Canada. 
On coming to Canada he 
settled in Seaforth for a 
short time, and then re 
moved to Gorrie, where he 
started in mercantile busi 
ness. Here he remained 
three years, when he re 
moved to Seaforth and en 
gaged in the manufacture 
of salt. In the year 1871 
he formed a partnership 
with his brothers-in-law 
N. H. Young and F. G. 
Sparling under the firm 
name of Gray, Young & 
Sparling. For sixteen years 
this firm did a successful 
business, extending their 
operations to Blyth andAYingham. In 
1887, such was the extent of their 
operations, that, in order to facilitate 
business, they organized themselves 
into a joint stock compan}-, of which 
Mr. Gray is the president. It is well 
understood by the trade that he holds 
the leading position in the salt business 
of the Dominion. Mr. Gray was mar 
ried on the loth of June, 1868, to Miss 
Martha A. Sparling, by whom he has 
three daughters. Soon after marriage 
he \vasconvertecl and joined the Metho 
dist Church, of :.-,, icn lie lias been a 
prominent member ever since. He has 
occupied every position in the gift of 


the church open to laymen, such 
Recording Steward, Sunday School 
Superintendent, Class Leader, etc. Hi 
has been a delegate to each annual 
Conference since the union, and a mem 
ber of each General Conference since 
i&gt;&gt;-8. He has been twice appointed by 
the General Conferen niembe- 

the General Hoard of Missions, and 
lias been secretary of the finance com 
mittee during the last two General 
Con fere- : Su.i I. Mr. Gra; 

lias been marked by an honest activity 
in the prosecution of his business, and 
a strict integrity in his dealings with 
his fcllowmcn. 


MKN OR CANADA. 


IGHT REV. MAU 
RICE SCOLLARD 


Bishop of Huron, London, 
Ont, was born in Toronto 
on the 2ist of June, 1836. 
He is the fourth son of the 
late John Spread Baldwin, 
and cousin of the late Hon. 
Robert Baldwin. He re 
ceived his early education 
at the Upper Canada Col 
lege, subsequently entered 
the University and gradu 
ated at Trinity College, 
Toronto, in 1859. In 1860 
he was ordained deacon by 
the late Bishop Cronyn. 
His first appointment was 
curate to the late Dr. St. 
George Caulfield, of St. 
Thomas. In 1862 he en 
tered upon his first inde 
pendent charge as incum 
bent of St. Paul s Church, 
Port Dover. In 1865 he 
was appointed to St. Luke s 
Church, Montreal. In 1870 
he became assistant minis 
ter at Christ s Church 
Cathedral, Montreal, and in 
the same } r ear was appoint 
ed one of its canons. On the death of 
the Very Rev. Dean Bethune in 1872, 
he was unanimously elected rector of 
the parish of Montreal, and subse 
quently made Dean of Montreal. In 
October, 1883, he was elected Bishop 
of the Diocese of Huron, and conse 
crated in Christ s Church Cathedral, 
Montreal, in Xovember following. 
Thus being called to the higher work 
of the Episcopate, he returned to pre 
side over the diocese which had given 
him Hoi}- Orders, and where the first 
years of his ministerial life had been 
spent. Besides the many important 
parochial duties His Lordship has. so 


faithfull} discharged, he has written 
several pamphlets, and two books en 
titled " A Break in the Ocean Cable " 
and " Life in a Look," which have had 
a wide circulation. These books are 
eminently clear and scriptural, and give 
a very correct idea of the views and style 
of their gifted author. Bishop Baldwin 
is a fluent and impressive preacher, 
and as a pulpit orator, a logical reasoner, 
and a true and faithful ambassador of 
Christ, he is widely known and highly 
appreciated all over the Dominion. He 
is remarkable for his earnestness, his 
strong simple faith, and his singular 
devotion to the Master s service. 


372 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


J^ f H. GULI.EDGE, Oakville, Out., 
&gt; was boru in that place on the 

^&lt;S i yth of November, 1851. He 
is the youngest son of Henry Gtil- 
ledge, Esq., Somersetshire, Eng., who 
came to Canada and settled in Oakville, 
and for many years carried on a 
saddlery business there. His educa 
tion was commenced at the public 
school and completed under private 
tutors. On leaving school he entered 
upon an apprenticeship to the saddlery 
business in his father s shop, and 
finished his trade in Jamestown, New 
York State, U.S.A., on the 3rd of .May. 

I. He then returned to Oakville, 


nnd on the 51)1 of June, 
iS-i, \\-as accepted as a 
partner in his father s busi 
ness. lu- being at that time 
only nineteen years of ai;c. 
This partnership continued 
until 1X77, -\vlun lie bought 
out his father s interest, and 
since that time has carried 
on the business alone. At 
first the making of harness 
was the only line to which 
attention was given, but the 
present owner has added 
boots and shoes, trunks, 
valises, etc. In fact any 
thing in first-class leather 
goods can be purchased 
there. He has been very 
successful, the business in 
creasing year by year, until 
now it is safe to say that lie 
has the most extensive trade 
in his line in Western On 
tario. Mr. Gul ledge attri 
butes his success largely to 
keeping reliable goods and 
selling them at a reasonable 
margin of profit. He has 
a ready grasp of all the re 
quirements of his business, 
and brings to bear upon 
every department the skill and experi 
ence of a thorough practical training. 
In religion he is an Episcopalian, 
being a member of St. Jude s Church, 
Oakville. In politics he is a strong 
Conservative, and takes an active in 
terest in all matters pertaining to his 
party. He has been a member of the 
Oakville Town Council three years, 
having been twice elected by acclama 
tion, which is an evidence of the esti 
mation in which he is held in the 
community. He was married on the 

2 1st of March, iSSi. to Miss Jane 
. \nnanda ( &gt;liphant, daughter of 1 )uiicait 
Oliphant, of ( Jakvilie, ( hit. 


OK 


373 


\\ /ARREN TOTTEN, 
VV Q.C., Woodstock, 
Out., was born in Paris, 
Brant County, on the 23rd 
May, 1835. He was edu 
cated at the Common and 
Grammar schools, studied 
law at twenty-one, and was 
admitted in 1861 to practice 
as a Solicitor. In 1862 he 
was called to the Bar and 
enrolled on the books of the 
Law Society, Toronto. He 
practiced law at Paris from 
1 86 1 to 1864, then for two 
years in Brantford. In 1866 
he removed to Woodstock, 
where he still continues to 
practice. Mr. Totten en 
tered public life at the age 
of forty, when he was elect 
ed Deputy Reeve (Town 
Council), and has been al 
most continuously connect 
ed with the same. He filled 
the office of Mayor two 
years, was Reeve and De 
puty Reeve several times 
during his connection with 

the Council, and is now first 

Deputy Reeve. He has 
been a member of the craft 
of A.F. & A.M. nearly twenty years, 
is a member of the A.O.U.W., in which 
he has held the various offices of chair 
man of Committee on Laws, Grand 
Overseer, Grand Foreman and Grand 
Master Workman. In 1889 he was 
elected by the Grand Lodge of Ontario 
its first Solicitor, which office he has 
lit-ld continuously since, being elected 
by acclamation at each annual session. 
In 1885 and 1886 he was elected by the 
Grand Lodge of Ontario one of its re 
presentatives to the Supreme Lodge. 
In iS86 he was elected Supreme 
Trustee, which office he filled until the 
recent session at Detroit, when he re 


tired, and was elected chairman of the 
Committee on Appeals. He is also 
connected with the Royal Arcanum, 
having filled the office of Grand Regent 
two years, represented the Grand Coun 
cil in the Supreme Council, and is now 
a member of the Committee on Appeals 
and Grievances in the Supreme Council. 
He is Solicitor for Canada for the Order 
of Fraternal Guardians. Mr. Totten s 
life has been a continued response to 
tin-, apparently, unlimited appeals to 
assist in the welfare of much that has 
bcrn outside of his profession. He is 
a member of the Church of England, 
and is an ex-warden. 


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MI:N &lt; &gt;i CANADA. 


JOHN JOSEPH GKK, M.D., 
C.M., Trinity and Victoria, 
F.T.M.C. and M.C.P.S.O., 
Toronto, Out., was born on the ist of 
November, 1860, in Rainham township, 
H.ildimand County. His parents are 
Hiram and Mary Ann Hall Gee, his 
father being a prosperous farmer in 
Haldimand County. His mother came 
from England, and his father is de- 
nded from the U. E. Loyalists. The 
latter has si.-rvi.-d for about twenty years 
in the Township and County Councils 
! laldiinaml, and at present holds the 
office of In spe ! &gt;r of said 

county. The subject of our sketch 


received his education under 
difficulties, only being able 
to attend scliool in the winter 
months, but by faithful ap 
plication and perseverance. 
he obtained a third-class 
teachers certificate before 
he attained the age oft wen ty . 
He then attended the Model 
School at Caledonia, and 
commenced teaching in iSSi i. 
He taught three years, after 
which he attended High 
School at Caledonia for 
eighteen months, preparing 
for matriculation in medi 
cine. Here he obtained a 
second-class grade " A " 
certificate, on which he 
taught one year. He en 
tered Trinity Medical Col 
lege in 1887 and graduated 
in 1890 with the following 
degrees : M. D.,C.M., Trinity 
University; M. D., C. M~, 
Victoria University ; F. T. 
M.C., Trinity Medical Col 
lege ; and M.C.P.S.O., mem 
ber of the College of Phy 
sicians and Surgeons of 
Ontario. He was a student 
with Dr. W. S. Clark, of 
Toronto, and in 1890, when the latter 
went to Europe for his health, he took 
charge of his practice. Dr. Clark, on 
his return, resolved to go to California 
to reside permanently, when Dr. ( . 
purchased his practice, and now retains 
this large and profitable connection. 
His office is on the corner of (ierrard 
and Jarvis streets, Toronto. Dr. ( , 

u adherent of Methodist Church. 
IK- is also secretary of the Younx 
People S v ill Bond Street Con 
gregational Church, is a member of the 
Masonic Hrotlu-rhood. and is medical 
examiner in Rainbow Council, Royal 
Templars. In politics he is Reform. 


MEN OK CANADA. 


375 


TACHLAN E. McKIN- 
Jl NON, St. Catharines, 
^ Out., was born on 
the i Qth of September, 1854, 
at Owen Sound, Out. His 
father was the late Rev. 
John McKinnon, Presby 
terian minister, who served 
the church at Carleton Place 
and Owen Sound for a num 
ber of years. He died when 
the subject of our sketch 
was but ten years of age, 
and the family were kept 
together and educated by 
the mother, with the help 
of the eldest son, who is 
now superintendent of the 
Industrial School at Minrico. 
Mr. McKinnon received his 
education at the Grammar 
School, Carleton Place, and 
Owen Sound High School, 
and at the age of fourteen 
commenced work at the 
hardware business with Mr. 
Kough, of Owen Sound. 
After serving a term of four 
years there, he removed to 
St. Catharines and engaged 
in the same business with 
Mr. Jeffrey, with whom he 
remained three years. A partnership 
was then entered into under the firm 
name of McKinnon & Co., which took 
in the carriage hardware department of 
Mr. Jeffrey s business. In the year 
1878 Mr. McKinnon bought out Mr. 
Jeffrey s interest, and formed a partner 
ship with Mr. Mitchell under the name 
of McKinnon & Mitchell. This firm 
existed for ten years, when it was dis 
solved, Mr. McKinnon taking the manu 
facturing department, which had been 
commenced in i8Si. The business is 
still carried on by him alone under the 
name of McKinnon, I)ash oc Hardware 
C&lt;&gt;. .which is also the name of a branch 


company in Buffalo, N.Y., which he 
established in 1887. Both of these 
concerns have been eminently success 
ful, owing largely to several patents on 
articles manufactured by them, issued 
to Mr. McKinnon in Canada and the 
United States. The extensive business 
now controlled by him is the result of 
his thorough knowledge of the require 
ments of his trade, the marked ability 
displayed in conducting it, and the in 
creasing energy so noticeable in his 
whole career. Mr. McKinnon was 
married in February, iS;S, to Miss 
Kmma K. Armstrong, and he is blessed 
with a happy home and family. 


MI-.N OF CANADA. 


graduated with honors in 
the year 1X69. After this 
IK- entered Victoria Medical 
College, Toronto, ai.d gra 
duated from this institution 
in 187(1, and in the same 
year graduated from the 
College of Physicians and 
Surgeons. He then com 
menced the practice of his 
profession in the village of 
Bhievale, remaining there 
nearly four years. In 1874 
he removed to Sea forth, 
where he continues to prac 
tice. Since settling here 
he has acquired a very large 
practice, the extent of which 
necessitated him, in 1891, 
associating as his partner 
Dr. Charles Mackay, whose 
portrait appears on the 
opposite page. Dr. Scott 
was married to Miss Eliza 
beth F. Rath on the 5th 
of February, 1873. He 
spent his earl} life on a 
farm, and still owns a farm, 
which he has a deer 


on 


JAMES G. SCOTT, M.D., Sea- 
forth, Ont.. was born on the 
I3th of February, 1842, at 
Gait, Waterloo County. He received 
his education at the public schools and 
Toronto Normal School. At the latter 
institution he obtained two Normal 
School certificates. After this he 
taught in the public school of Petrolia, 
in school section No. 6, McKillop town 
ship, and in Oil Springs (Lambton 
County i public school, of which he was 
principal. In the latter place he com 
menced his professional studies with 
Dr. Savage. In the year 1867 he at 
tended the University of Michigan and 


park, and which he lias 
V stocked with thoroughbred 

cattle and horses. He is 
also a breeder of imported Shetland 
ponies and thoroughbred poultry. Dr. 
Scott has been a member of the Pres 
byterian Church for many years, and 
added to his already busy life is the 
position of a trustee of the Collegiate 
Institute, and fora number of years was 
a member of the Municipal Council. 
He is a member of A.F. & A.M. Alex 
andria Lodge No. 158, of A.O.l AY., 
Royal Templars of Temperance, and 
Ancient Order of Foresters. I or a 
number of years he was treasurer of 
the Executive Court of thvhf 
and is also medical examiner for several 
i ranee companies. 


OF- CANADA. 


377 


/CHARLES MACKAY,M.D.,C.M., 
( ^ Seafortli, Out., (nephew of Rev. 
Vta^-^z; Dr. MacKay, of the Presby 
terian Mission, Formosa, China,) was 
born on the i6th of August, 1862, in 
McKillop township, Huron County. 
He received his education at the public 
and High schools, Seaforth, where he 
obtained a second-class certificate. He 
then taught for two years, after which 
he attended the Normal School, Toron 
to. After this he taught at Brucefield, 
at the same time taking up university 
work, and in 18X4 was engaged in 
the High School, Seaforth, continuing 
there three years. In 18X7 he en 


tered Trinity Medical College, Toronto, 
graduating in 1891 with the highest 
honors. His career at college was a 
brilliant one, being gold medalist of 
his class, and valedictorian for 1891, 
and standing third at the final examin 
ation for the degree of M.D., C.M., 
Trinity University. At the annual 
dinner given by Trinity Medical Col 
lege he was appointed chairman, (hi 
the strength of his splendid record at 
college, a tempting offer of a partner 
ship, which lie accepted, was made him 
by the skilful and now well-known 
Dr. J. (i. vScott, whose portrait appears 
on the opposite page. 


MKN &lt; &gt;! CANADA. 


I NTHONY FRANCIS FORBES, 

X\ Hamilton, Out., was born at 
V Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He 
is the eldest son of the late Captain 
A. \ r . S. Forbes. On retiring from 
active service in the army, he was 
appointed Sub-Collector of Imperial 
Customs at Yarmouth, N. S. The 
subject of our sketch commenced his 
education in England, and continued 
it in this country. He was appointed 
Sub-Collector at Shelhurne. X.S.. in 
S, and was subsequently removed 
to Annapolis, X. S.. as Comptroller of 
Customs and Xavi-atioii Laws and 
thence to Aricbat. C.I 5., to fill a similar 


position. On the transfer of the duties 
executed by Imperial Customs offu-crs 
to the officers of the Colonial Customs 
in 1855, he came to Hamilton. Out., 
where he has since resided, doing a 
large and growing business as stork 
broker and agent for inland and ocean 
marine and fire insurance companies. 
In religion lie is an Episcopalian, and 
was a church warden ot the Church ot 
the Ascension in 1X65 and 1X66. In 
politics be is a Libc l Conservative. 
Mr. 1 orbeswas married in 1X53. at An- 
napolis, N.S., to I. aliali. eldest daughter 
of Mr. Justice Ritchie, and widov. 
Charles MacColla, barrUcr. 


OK CANADA. 


379 


/2JECIL H. FITTON, D.D.S, and 
1 L.D.S., Simcoe, County of Nor- 

^ ^&lt;s&gt; folk, Out., was born the year 
1863 in Toronto. His parents came to 

Canada from England in 1858. His 
father, on coining to Canada, engaged 
in the agricultural business. He has 
three sons Cecil H., being the young 
est; the oldest is a Surveyor and Civil 
Engineer of Orillia; the second is in 
the Canadian Hank of Commerce. The 
subject of onr sketch received his edu 
cation at the public schools, Toronto 
Trinity College, and the University of 
Toronto. He graduated in 1887, and 
the same year opened an office in 


Simcoe, where he commenced the prac 
tice of his profession, and where he 
has succeeded in building up a large 
and remunerative business. He has 
already gained a good reputation in 
dentistry, and bids fair to move in the 
front rank of his profession. Mr. Fitton 
is a member of the Church of Kngland. 
He is president of the society of the 
Sons of Canada Brittania Lodge No. 
35, is vice-president of the Sons of 
England Royal Lodge No. 130, and is 
president of the Canadian Mutual Loan 
and Investment Company of Simcoe. 
Mr. Fitton was married in September, 
1888, to Miss Minnie Malone. 


MI:N OF CANADA. 


LEXANDER ARMSTRONG 
HUGHSON, barrister-at-law, 
Orangeville, Out, was born 
there on the 8th of January, 1861. 
His parents were Andrew and Martha 
Hnghson, the latter being a daughter 
&lt;if the Rev. Alexander Armstrong, 
Church of England clergyman. Hi 
father followed the teaching profession. 
Tiie subject of our sketch received his 
education at the public and High 
scl; Ol ille. He be -an the 

study of law in the year 1*77 with 
Judg e McCarthy, Jud.ne &lt;&gt;f the- County 
Dufferin. He- was admitted to the 
I Jar in the year iSS2, and for two y. 


was partner in the firm of McCarthy, 
Walsh & Hugh son. Since the year 
1885 he has been practicing alone, and 
has already secured a large client; 
Mr. Hughson is town clerk of ( )rangc- 
ville. In religion he is a nu-nibc: 
the Church of England, and in politics 
a Conservative, and takes an active in 
terest in his party, and in all mar 
pertaining to the welfare of the country. 

IK- u a member of the Independent 

ier of r.s, of which he is 

hief Ranker, and is also a meiu- 

: of the Sous of Ireland Protestant 

.ition. of which he is also p: 
dent. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


f"&gt; 


KS ROBINSON, M.D., Brampton, 
Out., was born November 4th, 1835, in 
"*&gt; Claude, Peel Co. He was edu 
cated at Toronto High School, and matricu 
lated in Toronto University in 1859. He then 
entered the Toronto School of Medicine, and 
was licensed by the Ontario College of Physi 
cians and Surgeons in 1862. In 1863 he 
graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Pa., 
U.S., and then began practice in his native 
town. In 1879 he was elected to the Local 
Legislature for the County of Cardwell. He 
was also coroner for the County of Peel for 
many years. Dr. Robinson is an adherent of 
the Presbyterian Church, a member of the 
Masonic Brotherhood, of the A.O.U.W. and 
the A. O.K. In politics he belongs to the 
Liberal party. His brother is an eminent 
medical professor in New York city and the 
author of many valuable manuals, and his 
son, who is a graduate of Toronto University. 
is his assistant. Dr. Robinson was married 
in 1868 to Miss Kllen Standing, who died 
in 1884, and, in 1890, to Miss I/&gt;wes, of 
Brampton. 


^jVfEIIv McCRLV 
^ \ citor, Caiui 


McCRIMMON, barrister and soli- 
Canada Life Chambers, To 
ronto, was born June 23rd, 1858, at Vank- 
leek Hill, County of Prescott. He was edu 
cated at the High School in his native county. 
He began life at lumbering on the Upper 
Ottawa, and afterwards lived for three years in 
Wyoming and Utah territories as agent for the 
well known " Star Stage Route," which occa 
sioned the celebrated "Star Route Fraud" case. 
From 1882 to 1884, with the exception of a 
few months, Mr. McCrimmon studied law at 
St. Thomas and Ridgetown. He was called 
to the Bar at Michaelmas Term, 1887, an d 
practised in St. Thomas for nine months, 
when the firm of McCrimmon 6t McCrimmon 
located in Toronto, and united witli Macdonald 
.X: Macintosh, of Cornwall. Since then the 
IK-W firm has been known as Macdonald, 
Macintosh & McCrimmon, and are building 
up a large practice. He is an adherent of 
the Presbyterian Church, a member of the 
Dominion Court of the Canadian Order of 
Foresters, and was elected president of the 
Young Men s Liberal Club in 1890. 


Mix &lt; &gt;|- k. A MAJ - \. 


BRA HAM FULLER ATKINSON, 
D.C.L., late rector of St. George s 
) Church, St. Catharines, Ont., son 
of Aaron Atkinson, Esq., of Moate, County 
Westmeath, Ireland, was born at the latter 
place April 27th, 1803. Having completed 
his education at Trinity College, Dublin, he 
came to Canada in 1827, and was soon after 
wards ordained by Bishop Stewart, of Quebec. 
For eight years he was assistant minister of 
Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, which he 
left, amid universal regret, to take charge of 
Bath, near Kingston, where he remained four 
years. In 1840 he removed to St. Catharines, 
where for nearly twenty-five years he was 
rector of St. George s Church and parish. 
Dr. Atkinson was one of the most eloquent 
preachers of his day, gifted with a voice of 
great compass and sweetness, which made him 
prominent as a reader in pathos, fervency and 
dramatic power. He received the honorary 
degree of D.C.L. from the University of 
Trinity College, Toronto. In 1833 he mar 
ried Anne, daughter of Amos Ansl 
of Kingston. He &lt;lied February 24th, is 


A\ pi. PRYOR ATKINSON. M.A.,bar- 
\ \ rister, Toronto, was born on ijth 
February, 1836, at Montreal. He is the son 
of the late rector of St. George s Church. 
St. Catharines, whose biography appears on 
this page. Having graduated in 1857 at 
Trinity University, Mr. Atkinson entered the 
law office of Richard Miller, Q.C., St. Catha 
rines, and subsequently that of Messrs. 
Cameron & McMichael, Toronto. He was 
called to the Bar in 1860. In 1869 he gave 
up the practice of law and l&gt;ecame secretary- 
treasurer of the Incorporated Synod of tin- 
diocese of Toronto, which he held fifteen \ . 
He has been Bursar of Trinity College for the 
past ten years, was secretary of \Vest York 
Liberal-Conservative Association, and in i 
organized the Parkdale Liberal-Conservative 
Association, of which he wa- 
has also been a memlx/r &lt;&gt;f the 1 arkdaU- Muni 
cipal Council, and in is&lt;ji was elected a: 
man in Toronto. In 1*77 Mr. A OUT- 

i Mary Elizabeth, daughter of &gt;rge 

Maynard. He is a member of the An : 
Church and of the A.F. and A.M. 


CANADA. 


383 


\ 


.TAPLETON CAL- 
DECOTT,Toronto, 
Out., was born on the 
1 5th of September, 1836, in 
Chester, Eng. He received 
his education at Chorlton 
High School, Manchester, 
Eng. After finishing his 
education, he served a full 
apprenticeship to the dry 
goods trade in Manchester. 
He then spent a short time 
in Glasgow, after which he 
went to London. In 1858 
he came to Canada and ac 
cepted a position in a mer 
cantile house in Montreal. 
He immediately connected 
himself with the Montreal 
Mercantile Literary Asso 
ciation, and soon became its 
president. He afterwards 
helped to found the famous 
Mercantile Literarj Society, 
which twenty-five years ago 
gathered around it some of 
the ablest literary and legal 
talent of Montreal. Mr. 
Caldecott was buyer for A. 
M. Ross & Co. three years. 
He then entered the firm of 
James Claxton & Co., re 
presenting them in Western Canada 
for several years. In 1878 he formed 
a partnership with Messrs. Burton, 
Harris & Spence, opening a business 
in Toronto under the firm name of 
Caldecott, Burton & Co. This firm 
now does business from Halifax, X.S., 
to Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C. 
Our subject served as a full private 
during the Fenian Raid. He is a 
member of the Church of England, 
has been a warden, delegate to the 
Synod, and held almost "every office 
open to laymen in the church. He 
wus president of Toronto Y.M.C.A. 
several years, and vice-president of 


Montreal Y.M.C.A. a number of years. 
He has been a director of several char 
itable associations, leader of Bible class, 
and Sabbath School Superintendent. 
He is chairman of the dry ooods sec 
tion of Toronto Board of Trade. In 
politics he is a Liberal, with strong free 
trade principles, although attached to 
British connection and British form of 
government. He has always been a 
contributor to the press and to various 
magaxines. Mr. Caldecott was married 
on the 2nd of December, 1867, to 
Emma Mary, daughter of H. Arnold, 
Principal of the British Canadian 
School, Montreal. 


\1 i-.N OF* CANAI . \. 


i;\ . EPHRAIM EVANS, D.D., 
London, Out., was born on the 

^ 30th of June, 1803, at King- 
ston-upon-Hull. His father was Capt. 
James Evans, who had charge of 
several ships in Her Majesty s Trans 
port Service. Our subject emigrated 
to Canada in 1820, settling in Lower 
Canada. In 1824 he removed to Upper 
Canada and followed the teaching pro 
fession. He was converted in 1826, and 
at once entered the ministry, and was 
ordained in 1830 by Bishop Hedding. 
Mr. Evans labored on the following 
circuits: Augusta, Kingston, Cobourg, 
St. Catharines, Niagara, Hamilton, and 


was &lt;&gt;ue year soliciting sub 
scriptions lor Victoria Uni 
versity, Coboiirg. He was 
then appointed editor of the 
C/ii islidti (itninfidii, which 
position he held three years. 
After that he was chairman 
of the Western District one 
year, and, at the dissolution 
of the Union, was appointed 
Superintendent of English 
Wesleyan Missions at Lon 
don, and after five years, on 
the restoration of the Union, 
lie was appointed to Toron 
to. In 1848 he was ap 
pointed General Superin 
tendent of the English 
Wesleyan Missions in the 
Maritime Provinces, being 
four years at Halifax, N.S., 
two years at Charlottetown, 
P.E.I., and three years in 
the college at Sackville, 
N.B. He then returned to 
Ontario and was chosen 
Superintendent of Kingston 
Circuit and chairman of that 
District. He was next ap 
pointed Grand Superinten 
dent of the Missions in 
British Columbia. He re 
mained there nine years, then returned 
to Ontario and became Superintendent 
of Hamilton Circuit and chairman ot 
the District. After two years service 
here, he was appointed Superintendent 
of Yorkville and chairman of Toronto 
District, remaining there two years. 
He then became. Superintendent oi 
in Industrial School and chairman 
of St. Thomas District. At Brantford 
Conference he was superannuated. 
Mr. Evans was twice married first, on 
t ne 371)1 of June, 1833. to Charlotte, 
daughter of Hon. Ma nil Shaw, 

and again, in 1X74, to Mary K., daugh 
ter of Robert Gunn, Wallace-town. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


385 


&gt;EV. JOHN REYNOLDS, 
Highgate, Ont, was born in 
&gt; Cornwall, Eng., January 
30th, 1837. When six years old his 
father s family came to Canada first 
settling in Cobonrg, and, after several 
changes, finally locating in Kent 
County. When very young he at 
tended school in England, and after 
wards in Cobourg, but he never took a 
complete course in any institution be 
yond the public schools. Mr. Reynolds 
is a self-educated man in the true sense 
of the word, and is well read in the 
highest branches of literature, in addi 
tion to his theological attainments. 


During the short period he was at 
school he made rapid progress in know 
ledge, and in 1859 was able to take out 
a teacher s certificate, and taught from 
1859 to 1865. In 1865, at Strathroy, 
he entered the Methodist ministry, 
having been received on probation, 
with ten others, by Niagara Conference 
of the M. E. Church in Canada. He 
has served the following circuits from 
1865 to 1891, namely: Sombra, Ennis- 
killen, Sandwich, Wallaceburg, Park 
Hill, Embro, Pelham, Barton, Smith- 
ville, Brant, Ingersoll, Avon, Vienna 
and Highgate. He was ordained as 
deacon in the M. E. Church by Bishop 
Smith in 1867, and received 
ordination as elder by 
Bishop Richardson in 1869. 
During his professional life 
of thirty years he has held 
many important positions 
on committees, was a dele 
gate to all the General Con 
ferences of the late M. E. 
Church, held after he was 
eligible thereto, and to the 
Union General Conference 
of 1883. He was also elect 
ed a reserve delegate to the 
General Conference of the 
Methodist Church held since 
the union. Mr. Reynolds 
was contributing editor 
for years to the Canada 
Christian Adrocatc. He is 
now P. C. and representa 
tive to the Grand Council 
of R. T. & T., also overseer 
of A.O.U.W., chaplain in 
I.O.F., etc. He was married 
on the 18th of September, 
1 86 1, to Miss Lowes, of 
Romney, Out., and has a 
family of four sons and four 
daughters, who will do well 
to emulate his energetic 
spirit. 


386 


MEN or- CA.NADA. 


^ *EY. JOSEPH R. 
W GUNDY, Sarnia, 
\^i ( hit., was born in 
the year iS; v S at Mount- 
melick, Ireland. His father, 
. Win. Gundy, was for 
fifty years a Methodist 
a-her, and three of his 
brothers were also in the 
ranks of the ministry. His 
primary education was re 
ceived at the public schools 
of ( hitario, and continued 
at St. Catharines Academy 
and Toronto University. 
He was called to the work 
of the ministry when but 
twenty-one years of age. 
His first appointment was 
Owen Sound, then Mont 
real, Lindsay, Yorkville and 
London. Mr. Gundy was 
married on September 26th, 
1865, to Miss Isabella, 
daughter of \Vm. Eveleigh, 
Esq., of Cote St. Leonard, 
near Montreal. His first 
appointment as a married 
man was Omeuiee, where 
he remained four years. 
His subsequent appoint 
ments have been : Tilson- 
burg, four years; Waterford, Cains- 
vine, Harristou, Exeter, Ridgetown, 
, Essex Centre, and Sarnia, his 
Mr. Gundy was con- 
Xew Connexion Church 

in 1874. He took an 

active part in the union movement at 
that time, and also in the subsequent 
when all the Methodist 


&gt; 


une n 

luld the office of chairman in the fol- 
living districts: Ridgetown, Aylmer, 
Windsor -uul Sarnia, and at the Con- 
Ire ce of 890 was elected president. 
,,,s a member of the first General 
Conference of Canada, and of each 


General Conference but one since that 
time. He has always taken an act, v, 
part in the Conference work of the 
church. Mr. Gundy is diligent, tei 
and faithful, and readily gains he 
fidencc and I ol Ins parish 

and ^* ^^Trtl^^ 
lug up the Church of &lt; .-1 

and spiritually on the chfterent char 

on *** ^ ** ^. ^ 

charge numljers over fixe 
member, and is one of lie bat 
pointed churches in the \\ est. 
&lt; &lt;,undy has 1 ^fi 

With tin e mov,,n,nt and 

works hard for rohibil 


MEN OK CANADA. 


387 


VID DOUGLAS WILSON, 
Seaforth, Out., was born June 
2nd, 1839, in North Dumfries, 
Waterloo County. He received his 
education at the public schools and Gait 
Grammar School. He obtained a first- 
class certificate and taught his old school 
in North Dumfries for five years. In 
1865 his eyesight failing him, he en 
gaged in the egg business, which has 
now reached gigantic proportions, ship 
ping something like a million and a 
half do/en per year to New York, 
Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Liver 
pool and London. Mr. Wilson is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, 


and has been an elder for twenty-three 
years, and Sunday School Superinten 
dent ever since the church at Seaforth 
was organized. He was reeve of the 
town for fifteen years, but declined re 
election in 1891. He belongs to the 
Masonic Brotherhood, also to the Royal 
Templars of Temperance. He was 
married in 1859 to Helen Richard 
son, of Waterloo, grand-daughter of 
Tibbie Shiel, of St. Mary s Cottage, 
Selkirkshire, Scotland. Mrs. Wilson 
died in 1885, leaving seven children. 
He was married again in 1891 to Annie 
Duthie, of Jarvis, Aberdeenshire, Scot- 
laud. 


388 


MEN 


CANADA. 


ROBERT AYLWARD, 
B.A., pastor of the First Con- 
jS&gt; gregational Church, London, 
Ont., was born at Huuston, Sussex 
County, England, July 22nd, 1856. 
He received his education at private 
schools and New College, London, 
Hng., and afterwards graduated with 
the degree of B.A. at Victoria Univer 
sity, Cobourg. He is also an associate 
of the SfiujtHS Acadcmicus of England 
and Wales in theological science. 
Before entering the ministry he was in 
a mercantile establishment. He was 
ordained to the work of the ministry 
pastor of High Street Congregational 


Church, West Bromwich, Eng., on June 
nth, 1885, where he remained until 
1887, when he came to Canada. On 
his arrival in Canada he became 
pastor of the Congregational Church 
at Cobourg. In 1890 he resigned tin- 
pastorate of this church to take the over 
sight of his present charge, which is the 
largest in the I ational denomina 

tion in Western Ontario. Ittvas estab 
lished in 1*37. The building occti] 
an excellent site on Dunclas street, and 
is a handsome and comfortable struc 
ture. Mr. Aylward was married on 
obcr 5th, iS,S6, to Miss Bridget A. 
Ritchie, of Havant, England. 


MKN 


389 


V. JOHN POTTS, 
).D., Secretary of 
Education in 
the Methodist Church of 
Canada, Toronto, Out., was 
born at Maguire s Bridge, 
Ireland, in 1836. At the 
early age of seventeen he 
came to America, first 
settling at Kingston, and 
subsequently Hamilton, 
where he engaged in mer 
cantile pursuits. This work, 
however, was not congenial 
to his tastes, and at the soli 
citation of friends, along 
with his own natural de 
sires, prior to the expiration 
of his arts course at Victoria 
College, Cobourg, he was 
induced to stud}- for the 
ministry. His probationary 
period was passed at Mark- 
ham, Aurora, Newmarket 
and Thorold. After ordina 
tion, his first appointment 
was London, as assistant to 
theVenerable Richard Jones, 
then Yorkville, and in 1866 
was chosen the first pastor 
of Centenary Methodist 
Church, Hamilton, and such 
were his talents, and so forcible his 
preaching, that he soon filled the 
church. He then accepted a call to 
St. James Street Church, Montreal, 
subsequently serving there a second 
time. Similar success attended him in 
this new field. At the expiration of 
three years he returned to Toronto, as 
pastor of the Metropolitan Church, also 
subsequently serving this church a 
second time. He also served Elm 
Street Church, Toronto, a third time. 
In 1878 he received the degree of D.I . 
from Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. 
Potts is a member of the Hoard and 
Senate of Victoria Vnivcrsitv, and of 


the Board of Montreal Theological 
College. He is one of the Dominion 
representatives on the International 
Committee, which selects the Sabbath 
School lessons for the world. In 1879 
he was appointed chairman of the Home 
for Incurables. He is a staunch sup 
porter of temperance. Rev. Dr. Potts 
is gifted with no ordinary power of elo 
quence, possessing a complete master v 
over his subject, and a splendid voice 
in the delivery of it. A Methodist of 
Methodists, he is a man of most liberal 
views, and is respected and esteemed 
by those outside its pale, both as a man 
and a minister. 


39 


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* 


THOMAS H. PARKER, ex-mayor 

A- of Woodstock, and one of its 
most successful business men, was born 
in Cumberland, Eng., on the loth of 
February, 1828. His parents were 
John and Jane (Harrison) Parker. 
Both the Parkers and Harrisons are 
(.Id Cumberland families. In 1831 the 
familv emigrated to Canada and settled 
in lYu-rhorough, where our subject 
-.it fifteen years in farming and at 
tending a public school part of the time. 
In ix.}6 his father moved to Zorra town 
ship, Oxford County, where he pur 
chased a farm and cultivated it for some 
vears. At the age of twenty, our sub 


ject returned to Peterbo 
rough, engaging in the 
lumber business in the sum 
mer and attending tlie Rev. 
Mr. Tavlor s (irammar 
School during the winter. 
I ; rom 1850 to 1855 he v, 
at Brantford and Hamilton 
as a merchant s apprentice. 
He then removed to Wood 
stock and commenced busi 
ness for himself. At the 
expiration of one year he 
formed a partnership with 
John D. Hood. He con 
tinued in this business until 
1873, when, having realized 
a competency, he sold out 
and retired from active busi 
ness. While in trade, Mr. 
Parker s excellent business 
habits, keen insight and 
ready grasp of all matters 
pertaining to the welfare of 
the community, were patent 
to the public, and he was fre 
quently called upon to fill 
various public offices. He 
was in the Council several 
years, and subsequently 
filled the office of first and 
second deputy reeve. In 
1878 he was elected mayor, and was 
so popular that he was re-elected by 
acclamation the next year. He was 
president of the Mechanics Institute, 
was the first president of Woodstock 
Board of Trade, and has always b 
identified with all matters pertaining 
to the welfare of the town. In poli 
tics he is Reform. He belongs to 
the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Parker 
was married on the ist of June, 
iX^&gt;, to Miss Annie, daughter 
Jain/ Hood. H-&lt;j.. \c\vcastle-oii-Tvnc, 
"sis . John I. Hood, mentioned 

abo\e. Their family consist-, ot two 
daughfa 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


^TNUNCAN SMITH, 
1 M.B.,Fingal,Ont., 
was born at North 
Knapdale,Arg\-lesliire, Scot 
land, on the 1 5th September, 
1865. He is the son of 
Dugald Smith and Mary 
McArthnr of that place. 
His father was a shoemaker, 
and came to Canada for the 
benefit of his family, but 
lives retired, never taking 
up any business. Dr. Smith 
was only seven years of age 
when his parents left Scot 
land. He received his early 
education at the public 
schools of Belmont, in the 
County of Middlesex, where 
they settled on coming to 
Canada, and afterwards at 
tended the Dresden public 
school. He then returned 
to Belmont and began the 
study of medicine, and 
matriculated at London in 
1884, and graduated in 
April, 1 890, taking honorary 
certificates in both the 
primary and final years. 
In. May, 1890, he also 
graduated at Toronto Uni 
versity with the degree of M.B., and the other to John McTavish, who is 
the week after passed the College of engaged, like his brothers, in the flax 
Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario, business. Dr. Smith is a member of 
At the end of his third year s studies the Presbyterian Church, as all his 
Dr. Smith bought out a practice in the ancestors have been. In that part of 
northern part of \Yisconsin, U.S. the Highlands of Scotland where he 
After graduation he opened an office was born Presbyterianism is the pre- 
and drug store in Port Stanley, where vailing religion", and its people are 
he now is. His father s family con- tenacious of their creed and church 
;isted of eight children the three wherever they are found. In Dr. 
eldest sons are now engaged in carrying Smith s religions views and preference 
on a large and increasing flax business, is seen illustrated the loyalty of the 
and the youngest son is in the clothing people of the Highlands "of Scotland, 
and tailoring business. His two eldest no matter where they are scattered, 
Bisters, Jessie and Eliza, are married- in standing by the honest and sturdy 
the one to John McColl, a farmer, and faith of their ancestors. 


392 


\1 I \ &gt;l CA.NAl A 


ELI AS ROGERS, coal merchant, 
Toronto, Out., was born on the 
^^ 23rd of June, 1850, and be 
longs to one of the oldest families in 
the County of York. His great-grand 
father, Timothy Rogers, came to this 
province from the United States about 
the year 1800, bringing with him forty 
families and settling near the village 
of Newmarket, Out. The subject of 
our sketch spent the early years of his 
life on the old farm, and, at the age of 
twenty-one, made his first commercial 
venture in the lumber business, at which 
he was successful. A fe\v years later he 
became interested ill coal mining oper 


ations iu Jefferson County, 
Pa., and shortly after this 
turned his attention entirely 
to the coal trade. About 
the year iSjo he came t&lt;&gt; 
Toronto, and in partnership 
with Mr. F. C. Dinniny, of 
Khnira, X.Y., laid the foun 
dation of the business which 
has now grown to be one ot 
the most extensive of its 
kind on the continent. Al 
though still a young man, 
he is probably the best 
known dealer iu fuel in the 
Dominion. The secret of 
his success, so early in life, 
is in great measure due to 
the strength of character 
and determination inherited 
from his parents. To this 
he added industry and a 
good business training, 
which, when brought to bear 
with his well-known perse 
verance, has placed him 
where he now stands. Mr. 
Rogers is a member of the 
Council of the Toronto 
Board of Trade, a director 
on the Boards of the 
Bible Society, Willard Tract 
Society and the Y. M.C.A., and takes 
an active interest in all matters pertain 
ing to the general welfare and pros 
perity of Toronto. After serving one 
year in the Toronto City Council, Mr. 
Rogers was presented with a petition, 
signed by over five thousand voters, re 
questing him to become a candidate lor 
the Mayoralty for iSSS. Though much 
against his inclination, he was finally 
induced to consent, The contest, which 
was one of the keenest Toronto lias 
r known, resulted in the election 
of his opponent by a small majority 
through a third candidate being pla 
ill the field. 


OK CANADA. 


393 


RTHUR GEORGE WEST- 
_^LAKK, photographer, Wood- 

^ stock, Ont., was born on the 
4th of August, 1867, at Grimsby, Ont. 
He received his education at private 
schools and at the public schools of 
London, Ont. He commenced business 
life as a newspaper bo} in London, 
which occupation he followed for two 
years, at the same time attending school. 
At the n.ne of fifteen he entered the 
establishment of Frank Cooper, pho 
tographer, London, and articled himself 
to him to learn the business. He was 
employed in this establishment for 
about .seven years. In October, 1889, 


he opened a studio in the town of 
Woodstock, where he has since con 
tinued. Since settling here, the char 
acter of his work has assured for him 
the largest trade in the town. He does 
nothing but first-class work, and con 
fines himself to photographs alone, 
availing himself of all that is new 
from time to time in the better equip 
ment of his business. Although still 
a young man, the citizens of Wood 
stock consider him one of the best 
photographers in the province. In re 
ligion he is a member of the Church of 
England. He is also a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 


394 


MIC.N OP- CA.NA.DA- 


I 


i-w^^ 

[ROMAS ALEXANDER, Collec- 

-^- lor of Inland Revenue, London, 
Out., was born on the 301)1 of October, 
1845, at Kingston, Out. His parents 
were David and Jane (Sleith) Alex 
ander. His father died in 1875, his 
mother is still living. Mr. Alexander 

educated at the public and Grammar 
schools and Queen s University of 
Kingston. After leaving the Univer 
sity, he \\.-is mathematical master of 
the Kingston Colk-giati- Institute for 

,t three years. In the year 1870 
lie received an appointment in the 
Inland Revenue service at Toronto, 
and afterwards served at King.ston, 


Waterloo, London, Sarnia, Brant ford 
and other places. He was appointed 
Collector of Inland Revenue at London 
in 1883, where he has continued ever 
since, and has proved himself to be 
an efficient officer. Mr. Alexander in 
religion is a Presbyterian, uniting with 
Zion Presbyterian Chimb, Hrantford. 
in iSSi, while located in that city. Ik- 
is an official in Knox Church, London, 
and for tli: :s has been chairman 

of the Board of Management. lie is 
a member of the Ma-onic fraternity. 
He was married on the 2&lt;)ih I&gt;cceni&gt; 
1*75. to Miss Henrietta Henderson, of 
Kingston. He has one son. 


\1KX T OF" C AX A DA. 


395 


( K A MANLY BENSON, of 
Toronto, Out., was born April 
_s&gt; 27th, 1842,111 Prince Edward 
County. His parents were Matthew 
R. and Nancy Benson, U. E. Loyalists. 
He received his education at Newburgh 
High School, and for some time fol 
lowed the teaching profession. He was 
received on probation in the Methodist 
Church in 1863, and, before ordination, 
travelled the circuits of Romuey, Chat 
ham, Windsor and Sarnia. Ordained 
at Hamilton in 1867, lie travelled after 
wards the following circuits: Ridge- 
town, Xewbury, Cooksville, Hamilton, 
(Centenary Church), Stratford (Central 


Church), St. Thomas (First 
Church), Brantford (Brant 
Avenue), Toronto (Central 
Church), Toronto (Berkley 
Street), and Queen Street 
Church, Toronto, his present 
charge. Here he has the 
largest membership, and, 
probably, the largest congre 
gation, of any Methodist 
Church in Canada. Mr. 
Benson has been the direc 
tor of services at Grimsby 
Park, the largest Christian 
Assembly in Canada, for 
eleven years. Under his 
able management this Park 
has been an extraordinary 
success, and is becoming 
more popular year by year. 
Mr. Benson has largely en 
joyed the advantage of 
I travel, having visited Eng 
land, Ireland, Scotland, 
France, Italy, Switzerland, 
Germany, having crossed 
the continent twice first, 
in 1871, with the late illus 
trious Rev. Dr. Punshon, 
and again in 1891. On this 
latter trip he filled lecture 
engagements, and preached 
at Long Beach, Lake Tahoe, San Fran 
cisco, and Los Angelos, in California. 
He is an able lecturer, having delighted 
large audiences in the principal towns 
and cities of Canada and the United 
States by his eloquent orations on 
The Wonders Of the Yosemite," 
" Across the Continent," " British 
Columbia," "Memories of Rome," and 
other interesting topics. Mr. Benson 
is an earnest worker in the temperance 
cause, and every good object, an eloquent 
and practical preacher, and a kind and 
sympathizing pastor. He was married 
July gtli, 1867, to Julia, daughter of 
Hon. Walter McCrea, Chatham. 


MI:N &lt; &gt;i- CANADA. 


~^T\\ : .\ . \VM. HKNKY 

IV WITH ROW. n.i&gt;. 

Vi P.R.S.C., Toron 
to, editor of tlu- " Canada 
Methodist Maga/inc," was 
liorn August oth. iS;q, at 
Toronto. IK- received liis 
education at Toronto Aca 
demy, Victoria College, C&lt;&gt;- 
bourg, and Toronto Univcr- 
sity, graduating from the 
latter with the degree of 
B.A. in 1863. Previous to 
entering college, he spent 
three years in the office ot 
William Hay, architect, of 
Toronto. He was ordained 
at Hamilton in 1864, and 
served the church at Water- 
ford, Montreal, Hamilton, 
Toronto, Niagara, and Ham 
ilton a second time. He 
was originally connected 
with the New Connexion 
Methodist body, but joined 
the \Yesleyan Conference in 
1867, and was an ardent ad 
vocate of union. In 1874 
he became editor of the 
"Canadian Methodist Maga 
zine " and Sunday School 
periodicals. Dr. Withrow 
was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
Society of Canada in 1883. He is a 
member of the Historical Society, 
Montreal, of the Senate and Board of 
9 Regents of Victoria University, of the 

;ate of Wesley an Theological Col- 
Montreal, and was formerly a 
member of the Senate of Toronto Uni 
versity. I Ie is secretary of the Sunday 
School Hoard and Epworth League of 
the Methodist Church, and has been a 
member ot" the last four (k-ucral Con 
ferences. In politics he is Reform. 
H-- ua&gt; married in 1*^4 to Sarah A. 
Smith, Siinc&gt;.e, Out. Dr. Withrow is 
the author of a number of works oi 


rare merit and literary ability. Per 
haps the most notable of these is 
"The Catacombs of Rome," which has 
now reached its fifth edition in Kn-land, 
and has received the highest possible 
commendations. His larger \\orks are 
his " History of the Dominion of 
:iada," and "Our Own Country: 
Picturesque and Descriptive." He is 
also author of a number of smaller 
volumes, among which are " Valeria, 
the Martyr of the Catacombs : A Tale 

Marly Christian Life in Ron: 
"\\-\ille Trueman, the 1 ioiieer 

The King s Mcsseni; 
The Romance of Mis etc. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


397 


A/TALCOLM DOUGLAS, mayor 
JL\ I of Woodstock, Out., was born 
^^ there December 2oth, 1859. 
His father, John Douglas, J.P., came 
to Woodstock in 1837 ail d lias been 
in business there ever since. He was 
for many years president of the 
Reform Association for North Oxford. 
Onr subject received his education at 
the public and High schools, Wood 
stock. He learned the trade of a 
saddler and followed it nine years. In 
1885 Jie was elected to the Town Coun 
cil, and re-elected in 1886. In 1887 he 
was elected third deputy reeve, in i.SNS 
second deputy reeve, in 1889 first de 


puty reeve, in 1890 reeve, and in 1891 
mayor, each election, except 1887, being 
by acclamation. He is a Reformer in 
politics, and is active in the interests 
of the party, and the general welfare 
of his country. He is secretary and 
treasurer of Woodstock Collegiate In 
stitute, chairman of the Water Works 
Commission, and a director of the 
( )\ford Permanent Loan and Savings 
Company. In religion lie is a 1 ivsby- 
terian. He is a member of the A. P. iX: 
A.M., C.O.I-., O.S.C., A.O.F., and 
Woodstock A. A. A. He is a Past Chief 
Ranger of the C.O.K. and Trustee of 
the High Court, A. O.K. 


398 


M IN &lt; &gt;K C A NAr&gt;A. 


EV. EDWARD N. ENGLISH, 
M. A., Vice-President and Prin- 

^_ cipal of Hellimith Ladies 
College, London, Out., was born in 
Brockville on the i;th of June, 1851. 
II.- is the eldest son of the late Rev. 
X. I . English, London. Mr. English 
graduated at Toronto University in 
1876, afterwards studied at Huron Col 
lege, London, and in 1879 was admitted 
to Holy &lt; Jrdcrs in the diocese of Huron 
by the Right Rev. Bishop Hellmuth. 

carried in 1*77 to Mary 
daughter of the late Rev. H. Mulkins, 
formerly of Kin.ot..n. I *" r f()lir &gt; 
Mr. English had charge of the parish 


of Kirkton. In iSS;, ]R- became Prin 
cipal of Hellnmth College, since which 
date his name has been identified with 
the successful history of this Institu 
tion for the higher education of young 
women. Under his very able man:, 
ment, the college has kept up with the 
increasing demands of the present day, 
.standing foremost among the institu 
tions of its kind in the Dominion. 
The literary facilities have been made 
more compreb md additional : 

duating courses in music, art and elocu 
tion have been added, while featnn 
the relating to the home &lt; 

of the students are equally improv 


399 


Hellmuth College, 

London, Ontario, 


Canada. 


REV.IEDWARD N. ENGLISH, M.A., 

PRINCIPAL. 


400 


Mix &gt;i CANAI &gt; \. 


&gt;KY. WAI.TI-R M. 
Rnr.KR, M.A., 
pastor of Kinx 
Street Pivsbyterian Church, 
London, ( hit., \\ as 1)orn on 
the 3ist December, 1839, at 
Kincardine O Xcil, Scot 
land, at the manse of his 
grandfather, \vlio was parish 
minister. His youth v. 
nt in Peterboro, win 
his father, Rev. John M. 
Rogi-r, \vas long and veil 
known as pioneer Presby 
terian minister. His mother 
was Eli/a (Morris) Roger. 
From the Peterboro Union 
School, Mr. Ri;er matricu 
lated into the Toronto Uni 
versity in 1858, and gradu 
ated in 1862. He took the 
natural science honor cotirse 
throughout, and obtained 
honors in other branches, 
taking four scholarships in 
natural science and gen 
eral proficiency. He ob 
tained his theological edu 
cation at Knox College, 
Toronto, and the New Col 
lege, Edinburgh. Prior to 
ordination he received sev 
eral calls, and accepted that of Knox 
Church, Perth, being ordained and in 
ducted there in the year 1866. He 
was married March 23rd, 1867, to Miss 
Helen Sarah "\Vallis, daughter of James 
Wallis, Esq., Peterboro. He remained 
in Perth two years, and then accepted 
a call to the Presbyterian Church at 
Petrolea. Resigning this charge in 
1871, he went to the old country to 
advocate the claim of French-Canadian 
Missions. Returning to Canada in 
1873, he accepted a call to Ashburn, 
Ont., where he labored ten years. In 
1884 he accepted a call to King Street 
Presbyterian Church, London, where 


he has continued to labor \vith very 
great acceptance since. This church 
was founded in 1878, the Rev. John 
Knox Wright being the first pastor 
and Mr. Roger the second. It has per 
formed an important part in supplying 
the spiritual wants of the eastern part 
of the citv of London. Mr. Ro^-r vas 
convener of the Committee on the S 1 
of Religion in the Synod of Toronto 
and Kingston five years, and has brcii 
connected with various other depart 
ments of church work. He is at pres 
ent president of the London Ministerial 
Association, and also of the London 
.n Ministerial Association 


MEN OK CANADA. 


401 


: T . DAVID WM. 
SNIDER, pastor 
of King Street 
Methodist Church, Inger 
soll, Ont., was born May 
2oth, 1859, in the township 
of Burford, Brant County. 
His father was the late 
Samuel Snider, who was for 
many years the assessor of 
the city of Brantford, and 
well and favorably known 
in that city both in church 
and municipal matters. Mr. 
Snider was educated at the 
public schools of Paris and 
Brantford, Brantford Col 
legiate Institute and Victoria 
College, Cobourg. Realiz 
ing his call to the Gospel 
ministry early in life, he 
engaged in various avoca 
tions to procure the neces 
sary funds for his educa 
tion. He was made a local 
preacher in the year 1878 
by the Wellington Street 
Methodist Church Quarter 
ly Board, Brantford. He 
afterwards preached tinder 
a chairman for two years, 
and, in 1880, was re 
ceived on probation in the London 
Conference. Before ordination he tra 
velled the following circuits : Smith- 
ville, Ridgeway, Fonthill and Paris, 
and spent two years at College. He 
was ordained in the year 1884 at the 
last session of the London Conference 
of the Methodist Church of Canada, 
held at Guelph. Since ordination he 
has served the following churches : 
Zion Tabernacle Hamilton, Merritton, 
and his present charge at King Street 
Church, Ingersoll. While at Merrit 
ton he built a beautiful new church 
and united two congregations that had 
worshipped previously at either end of 


the town. While at Hamilton the 
membership of the church doubled. 
His church at Ingersoll is one of the 
most beautiful in the Niagara Con 
ference, and has been honored with 
some of the leading ministers of 
Methodism, including Rev. E. H. 
Dewart, D.D., and the late Rev. W. W. 
Ross. Mr. Snider is an able preacher 
and a firm believer in systematic 
Christian giving, and an opposer of all 
methods of raising money for church 
purposes other than direct giving. He 
was married on the lyth March, iSS^, 
to Miss Lily, daughter of Samuel 
Harvey, of Hamilton. 


402 


MKN 


CANADA. 


JAS. SHAW SINCLAIR, Q.C., 
Hamilton, Judge of the County 
Court of the County of Went- 
worth, was born in Ramsay, County of 
Lanark, on the jth of April, 1838. 
His parents were Alexander and Eliza 
beth (Shaw) Sinclair, of Ramsay 
township, County of Lanark, his father 
being formerly of Caithness-shire, Scot 
land. The Judge was educated at Perth 
.mmar School and by private tuition. 
Ik- was married in 1861 to Henrietta, 
daughter of the late Rev. J. Pacific-Id, 
of Hurford.Ont. Judge Sinclair studied 
law with the late William McXairn 
Shaw, and was called to the Bar in 


IK- commenced his 
profession in Goderich in 
partnership with Alexander 
Shaw, K.sq., now O.C. of 
\Yalkcrton. He was elected 
a Bencher of the Law 
Society in 1871, re-elected 
in 1876, and resigned tin- 
same year. He was also 
created a Q.C. in 1876. He 
conducted for the Crown the 
important trial of William 
John Deals, at Welland in 
1874, for the murder of his 
wife at Fort Erie, which re 
sulted in a verdict of man 
slaughter. He was Crown 
counsel in the conviction of 
McConnell, for the murder 
of Nelson Mills, at the 
Hamilton Winter Assizes 
in 1876. In this case, the 
plea of prisoner s insanity 
was set up and strongly 
urged by his counsel, and 
still forms a theme for dis 
cussion among medical men. 
The prisoner was convicted 
and executed. He also de 
fended Joseph France, who 
was tried for murder at the 
Goderich Fall Assizes in 
1874, and Maria Elliott, for the murder 
of her child, at the Spring Assizes in 
1876. In both of which cases the pri 
soners were acquitted. Mr. Sinclair 
was appointed to the Bench in April, 
1876, and at the time was senior part 
ner of the law firm of Sinclair, S&lt; 
& Wade, at Goderich, and much &lt; 
pied with nisi-priits business. Tin- 
Judge is the author of a number ot 
important legal works and publica: 
among them several works on "Di\i- 
sion Courts," " :iding Deb: 

Landlord and Tenant," and The 
License Law of Ontario." Such men 
always an honor to ti h. 


MEN OK CANADA. 


403 


EV. JOHN CAMP 
BELL, ALA., Ph.D., 
^) Collingwood, Out. , 

was born in Argyleshire, 

Scotland, 1845. His father 

was a relative of Sir James 

Brown, Edinburgh, and Sir 

Colin Campbell, whose name 

became immortalized by his 

bravery at the relief of 

Lucknow and by the " Thin 

Red Line " of Highlanders 

at Balaklava. His mother 

was Margaret Anderson, a 

relative of Sir John Dick, 

of Glasgow. His parents 

came to Canada about the 

year 1851. and settled in 

Nottawasaga. Dr. Camp 
bell was educated at Stayner 
public school, Toronto Col 
legiate Institute, University 
of Toronto and Knox Col 
lege. He received the degree 
of B. A. at the University of 
Toronto in 1873, M.A. in 
1883, a d graduated in 
theology in Knox College 
in 1874. He took a post 
graduate course of four 
years at Bloomington Uni 
versity, obtaining the degree 
of Ph.D. in 1885. Of all the honors 
he secured during his college career, 
the one he valued most highly was the 
first prize as public speaker in the gra 
duating class at Knox College. Prior 
to entering college, he taught school 
with marked success for a Yew years. 
He was ordained and inducted into the 
Presbyterian Church at Canniuoton, 
Out., in 1874. In 1878 he accepted a 
call to Knox Church, Harriston, and re 
mained there until 1886, when he ac 
cepted a call to Collingwood. He de 
clined a number of calls from the United 
States and Canada. Dr. Campbell as 
a preacher is eloquent, clear, logical, 


evangelical and impressive, and as a 
pastor endears himself to his people by 
his strong social qualities. He has 
been most successful as a minister of 
the Gospel, being faithful, conscientious 
and energetic, filling every church of 
which he has had charge to its utmost 
capacity. The roll of his Sabbath 
School at Collingwood numbers over 
six hundred. He has been Moderator 
of three different Presbyteries, a mem 
ber of the General Assembly, the Home 
Mission Committee and Sabbath Obser- 
ance Committee. He is a member of 
the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., A.O.U.W., 
and St. Andrew s Society. 


404 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


TSSAC FRANCIS TOMS, Senior 
Judge of the County of Huron, 
Goderich, Ontario, was born at 
Charlotteville, Norfolk County, in 
February, 1840. His father was Albert 
Toms, of Devonshire, Eng. His great- 
great-grandfather was a Highlander 
from Argyleshire, who took part in the 
taking of Quebec in 1759- Judge 
Tunis was educated at private and 
public schools, and then studied law in 
Simcoe and Toronto, and afterwards 
came to Goderich in 1860, where, in the 
following year, he commenced the prac 
tice of law. His success soon bror. 
him into prominence, and, in 1866, 


being tlu-n only twenty-six 
years old, he was appointed 
I &gt; -puty Judge of I Inron and 
Bruce, but resigned in 1^67. 
In 1X72 he was appointed 
Junior Judge of 1 lunm, and 
in 1^79 Surrogate Judge ot 
the Maritime Court of On 
tario. In March, 1881, he 
was appointed Local Judge 
of the High Court of Justice 
for Huron, in 1882 Senior 
Judge of the County Court 
of Huron, and, in 1885, 
Revising Officer for South 
Huron. Judge Toms was 
one of the very first share 
holders in the company that 
put down the first salt well 
in Goderich. He is a mem 
ber of the Masonic body, 
and has held the highest 
offices within the gift of 
that fraternity, and also be 
longs to the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and 
other societies. Previous to 
his elevation to the Bench 
iu 1872, Judge Toms was a 
zealous member of the 
Liberal-Conservative party, 
and was president of the 
South Huron Liberal -Conservative 
Association, and afterwards of Centre 
Huron Association. He was married in 
August, 1875, to Georgina Charlotte, 
only surviving child of Dr. John Geo. 
Rosonkin, a distinguished linguist and 
homeopathist, who came originally from 
Prussia, and practiced at different times 
in St. Louis, U.S., in London, Kng .. 
and in Montreal, where he died in 
1859. When at the Bar Judge Toms 
was one of the most able chancery 
lawyers in Ontario, and had a large 
and" valuable practice. A-&gt; a Judge he 

iistinguished for his legal kno\vl&lt; 
and correct judgments. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


405 


. JAS. GORDON, 
M. A. .London, Out, 

was born on the 
22nd February, 1827, * n 
Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 
His parents were William 
and Jean (Piper) Gordon. 
His father was a farmer and 
an elder in the Church of 
Scotland. Our subject com 
menced his education at the 
parish schools of Scotland, 
and continued it at the 
public schools of Ontario, 
(whither he had come with 
his widowed mother), Pal 
ermo Grammar School and 
Queen s College, Kingston. 
Previous to attending col 
lege, he taught school four 
years. He matriculated into 
Queen s College in 1848, 
received the degree of B.A. 
in 1 85 1, and the degree M. A. 
in 1853, and completed his 
theological course in 1854. 
He then received a call to 
St. Andrew s Church, Mark- 
ham, and was ordained and 
inducted into that church 
September 2jth, 1854, and 
remained there eleven years. 
He then accepted a call to Crumlin, a 
few miles east of London. He re 
mained here eleven years also, and was 
the-n called to St. Andrew s Church, 
Niagara Falls, where he was inducted 
on August 22nd, 1876. He remained 
here until October, 1886, when failing 
health compelled him to retire from 
active work. He has since resided in 
London, and is an elder of St. Andrew s 
Church. Mr. Gordon was convener 
and treasurer of the Toronto Presby 
tery s Home Mission about nine years, 
clerk of the London Presbytery ten 
years, secretary of the I MMM! of Edu 
cation for East and West Middlesex 


about ten years, Superintendent of 
Public Schools of North Dorchester 
seven years, and was Inspector of 
Public Schools of Niagara Falls during 
the greater part of his residence there. 
Mr. Gordon preaches as often as health 
will permit, and is constant in Christian 
labors, doing an elder s work in connec 
tion _ with St. Andrew s Church, con 
ducting services in the benevolent in 
stitutions in turn with the city pastors, 
and is at the present time treasurer of 
the Presbytery of London. He was 
married in November, 1854, to Helen, 
daughter of the late Dr. White, of 
Kingston, Out. 


4 o6 


MEN OF CANADA.. 


JOHN McCLARY, of the 
McClary Manufacturing Co., 
London, Out., was born on the 
and of January, 1829, in the township 
of Westminister, County of Middlesex. 
On his father s side he is of the his 
torical stock of Adams, his grandmother 
being a cousin of the celebrated John 
(Jnincy Adams, a name which will long 
stand forth as one of the greatest 
among American families. His mother, 
Sally Stark, who was born in Pennsyl- 
\ania on the lyth of March, 1786, was 
a descendant of Gen. Stark, of Revo 
lutionary fame. Mr. McClary learned 
the tin busine-s in London, and in 1850 


went to California. He re 
turned to London in iS;i. 

and, in partnership with his 

brother Oliver, started the 
present establishment under 
the firm name of J. i\: &lt; ). 
McClary, which was carried 
on until 1871, when a joint 
stock company was formed 
tinder the name of the 
McClary Manufacturing 
Co. (Ltd.). The business 
has, as is well known, 
reached gigantic propor 
tions, and their stoves, fur 
naces and tin supplies are 
handled by the trade in 
every town and city in the 
Dominion, while they also 
do their share of foreign 
trade. Mr. McClary in re 
ligion is a member of the 
Methodist Church, and is a 
trustee of Wellington Street 
Church, London. He has 
always been a Reformer in 
politics, but is a strong sup 
porter of the National Policy 
and a thorough advocate for 
developing the natural re 
sources of the country. He 
is a magistrate, director of 
the L. and P. Ry., vice-president of the 
Ontario Loan and Debenture Co., vice- 
president of the London Life Assurance 
Co., and is president and chief stock 
holder in the Manufacturing Company 
which bears his name. He is a shrewd 
business man, and the success of the 
company is due largely to his ability. 
Mr. McClary has been twice married- 
first, in 1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of 
I ha-nix I)rake, and again, in iS6n, to 
Miss Pavey. He has two datight 
by his first wife Mrs. Gnim and Mrs. 
Gartshore both of whose husbands 
are engaged in the business with Mr. 
McClary. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


407 


A /T ARSENA MORSE, undertaker 
jl\ I and embalmer, Niagara Falls 
^^ South, Ontario, was born on 
the iSth of April, 1831, at that place-. 
He \yas educated at the public school 
of his native town. At the age of 
fifteen he engaged with his father to 
learn the business of cabinet making, 
and in iSbi became apprenticed to tin- 
trade of carpenter and builder. ( hi 
the death of his father in 1X7.4, he 
bought the estate and curried on the 
undertaking branch of the business, 
which he continues to the present 
time with every satisfaction to the 
large patronage that has come to him. 


In 1880 he commenced studying the 
art of embalming, and in 1883 received 
a diploma from the Rochester school, 
certifying to his graduation in that art. 
On his conversion in 1X55, he imme 
diately united with the Methodist 
Church, ot which lie is a prominent 
member. He lias occupied many official 
such as steward and class- 
He is a member of the 
I.O.I ).!.. and also of the Royal 
Templars of Temperance. Mr. Morse 
was married on the iSth of October. 
iS=;.|, to Mary A. Gray, dan-liter of 
William C,ray, a soldier of the o;,nl 
I lighlanders. 


positions, 
leader. 


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r . CHARLES FISH, Toronto, 
Out., was born on the nth of 
^S) September, 1820, in Selby, 
Yorkshire, Eng. He received his edu- 
cation at the schools there, and, at the 
age of fifteen, commenced to preach. 
He came to Canada in 1848, and en 
tered the Methodist Conference the 
same year. Gnelph was his first cir 
cuit. He was afterwards stationed in 
I cterboro, Lindsay, Cobonrg, Owen 
.nd. Toronto, and many other prin 
cipal towns and cities of Canada. He 
served in the active work of the minis 
try thirty-eight years, and during that 
time was chairman of several important 


districts, and was a delegate to the first 
General Conference, and to each su 
quent Conference until he was su; 
animated in 1886. He was agent for 
Victoria College twenty years, and since 
superannuation has been collector for 
the Federation Fund, and has held 
evangelistic services in many of the 
leading towns and cities of Ontario. 
The prominent aim of his life lias li&gt; 
the building of churches and the sav 
ing, of souls, in which he has been 
most SUCCe&sful. Mr. Fish 
twice married -first, in 
Wilkinson, and again, 
Catherine Johnson. 


n 


lias been 

, to Mary 

1860, to 


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409 


J 


ARTHUR WILLIAMS, M.D., 
L.R.C.P. London, M.R.C.S. 
and L.M. England, Ingersoll, 
Out., was born February 2ist, 1837, at 
Queenston, Ontario. His parents were 
James and Rebecca (Smith) Williams. 
Dr. Williams came to Oxford County 
in his boyhood, where he was educated 
at the common schools and also by pri 
vate tutors. Like many professional 
men of Canada, lie spent his early life 
on his father s farm. In 1860 he en 
tered the Toronto School of Medicine, 
and subsequently the Medical Depart 
ment of Victoria University, Cobourg, 
and graduated M.D. in 1863. Two 


years after he received the 
appointment of demonstra 
tor of Anatomy in Victoria 
College, holding that posi 
tion until 1867. He spent 
some time in New York in 
the special study of the eye 
and ear, and subsequently 
visited England, attending 
the leading hospitals and 
passing the examinations 
for the degrees above men 
tioned. Resigning his posi 
tion in Victoria College, he 
commenced practicing his 
profession in Ingersoll, 
where he still lives in the 
enjoyment of a large prac 
tice. Dr. Williams has been 
a member of the Ontario 
Medical Council since 1880, 
representing the Gore and 
Thames electoral division, 
and is now its president. 
In 1869 he was appointed a 
trustee of the High School 
and a member of the Board 
of Education, which posi 
tion he held until 1889. He 
was a member of the Coun 
cil in 1876 and 1878, and 
has been reeve of the town 
continuously since 1887. In politics 
he is a Liberal-Conservative, and was 
for a time president of the local Liberal- 
Conservative Association. In 1882 he 
contested the South Riding of Oxford 
with Hon. Adam Crooks, being defeated 
by a small majority. In 1885 he con 
tested the riding again with Dr. McKay, 
and, after a gallant fight, was again 
defeated, which is not a matter for 
wonder, as it is well known that South 
Oxford is a strong Reform constitu 
ency. In religion he is a Methodist. 
He was married first in 1871, and again 
in 1880 to Miss Fullerton, of South 
Dorchester, by whom he has one son. 


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AMES STEVENS, 

Division Court Clerk, 

- -^ In-i-rv.il. Out., was 

lx.ru July i;th, iS;/i, at 

Whitby, Out. His parents 

were Thomas and Sophia 
1 lough) Stevens, his father 

being a well known farmer 

in Ontario County, and also 

in the County of Oxford for 

many years. Mr. Stevens 

came to Oxford County with 

his parents in 1851. He 

was educated at the public 

school, "\Yhitby, and Oshawa 

High School. He obtained 

a second-class teacher s cer 
tificate in 1855 from Oxford 

County, and also from the 

Counties of Middlesex and 

Elgin. He taught school 

nearly three years near 

Vienna, and also for a short 

time in Oxford County. In 

1859 he engaged in mercan 
tile business in Springford, 

Oxford County, and subse 
quently Mount Elgin. In 
1880, after a residence of 

two years in Tilsonbnrg, he 

removed to Ingersoll, and 

soon after was appointed 

Division Court Clerk there, which office 
he still holds. Mr. Stevens was a 
member of the Township Council of 
Dereham four years, and was Deputy 
Reeve of the town of Tilsonburg one 
year. He was alderman in Ingersoll 
three years, and in 1891 was elected 
Mayor of that town, but, through a 
al technicality, lost his seat. He 
has been a member of the Baptist 
Church since 1868. In politics he is a 
K i- former, having previous to his pres 
ent appointment taken a very active 
part in political affairs, and in all mat 
ters pertaining to the welfare of the 
country. He was secretary of the K&lt; - 


form Association of the County of &lt; )x- 
ford for fifteen years. Mr. Stevens was 
married September 23rd, 1858, to Eliza 
Cerintha, daughter of Norman L 
Norwich. His children were three in 
number one son and two daughters. 
His son, Morgan L., who died June ith, 
1891, was a merchant in Ingersoll and an 

alderman of that town. 1U- was a lead 
ing young man in the community, a 
fon-eVul public sjK-aker, an enterprising 

bu.siness man, and enjoyed the full coii- 

oce "f all who "knew him. His 

daughter is Mrs. } .. II. Hugill. 

and his youngest, Minerva May. is still 

at home with her parents. 


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7T LEX. RIGGS McCLENEG- 
Z-V IAN, P.M., Woodstock, Out., 
^^ was bom on October icth, 
1823, "i Armagh, Ireland. His fathcr 
belonged to Her Majesty s ;th Light 
Dragoons, and came to Canada in 1820 
settkngin "Little York." Ounmbject 
received his education in Toronto pri 
vate and district schools. He learned 
the trade of a printer at Toronto, and 
was afterwards a reporter for the public 
press f&lt;,r a number of years, also editor 
and proprietor of various papers. Iii 
1856 he established the Woodstock 
//MV-.V, which he conducted until 1X73, 
when he was a])pointed Postmaster 


there. Mr. McCleneghan 
was appointed a Justice of 
the Peace in 1856, has been 
a member of the Municipal 
Council of Woodstock, was 
captain in the Oxford Rifles 
for twenty years, and retired 
with the rank of major. In 
1837 he volunteered to do 
garrison duty under Col. 
McLean, and was in the 
advance guard when the at 
tack was made on Montgo 
mery s Hotel, Gallows Hill. 
He also went with Colonel 
Chisholni to Xiagara frontier 
in 1838. At the time of 
the " Trent affair " he offer 
ed his services to Her 
-Majesty s Government. In 
religion he is an Episcopa 
lian, being church warden 
and a delegate to the Synod 
on different occasions. 
Through him and Colonel 
John Barwick old St. Paul s 
Church, Woodstock, was re 
opened. In politics he is a 
Conservative, He is a mem 
ber of the A.F. & A M 
I.O.O.F.,A.O.r.W.,I.O.F., 
C.O.F.,and an Orangema 

1 /] . A. _ /" J 1 /V 


in v/i IUJC1IKII1 , 

and has held most of the offices in the 
gift of these societies. Mr. McClcnco-han 
has been twice married first, in 1845 

to Emma Nott, of Sussex, Eng., who 
died in 1849; and, in 1852, he married 
Rosanna Dolmage, of r.ndph. He 
has five sons living and occupying 
prominent positions: Alexander V* 
being a barrister in Winnipeg, of the 
firm of Aikens, Culver, Patterson oc 
McCleneghan; Thomas A., assistant 
P.M. at Woodstock; Frank, iii a lucra 
tive position in Kimxville, Teim. 
Albert B., in the Imperial Bank, Wood 
stock, and Warren H., in the Xorth- 
West engaged in agricultural pursuits. 


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J 


olIX \v. GARVIN, 

I ,. A., Principal 
-^ Model and Public 
, Woodstock, &lt;&gt;nt, 
\vas born near Lyndeii, 
Wentworth County, on the 
1 9th of March, 1859. He 
is the eldest of seven sons 
of David Garvin, a native 
of Armagh, Ireland, now a 
well-to-do-farmer of Mid- 
hurst, Vespra township, 
Simcoe County, and a coun 
cillor of the township men 
tioned for over twenty years. 
His mother, a woman of re 
fined tastes and habits, is a 
Canadian by birth. Our 
subject remained on his 
father s farm until twenty 
years of age. He then be 
gan his studies at Barrie 
Collegiate Institute, prepar 
ing for his chosen profes 
sion. In ten months he ob 
tained a non-professional 
certificate, after which he 
attended the Model School, 
and afterwards taught about 
three years. He then re 
turned to Barrie Collegiate 
Institute to prepare for 
senior matriculation into Toronto 
University. This he accomplished, en 
tering the university in October, 1884. 
He took the three year honor course in 
mental and moral science, logic and 
civil polity, and honors for two years 
in English and history. He completed 
his course in 1887, and subsequently 
obtained the degree of B.A. The same 
y.-ar he became principal of "\Yelland 
"Model and Public Schools, remaining 
there a year and a half, when he re 
signed to accept his present position. 
Mr. r.arvin holds advanced views on 
the desirability of paying increased at 
tention to the manual arts and to 


aesthetic culture in our public schools. 
He is already well known as a specialist 
in applied psychology and vocal music, 
and as the author of a phonic method 
of word recognition. He also takes 
deep interest in the educational, social 
and political advancement of women, 
being the first president of the W&lt; .man s 

I fi-age Association of Woodstock. 
IK- is a member of Chalmers Presby 
terian Church, and its choir lea. 
II,- is also an active member and an 
ex-vice-president of theY.M.C.A. Mr. 

win was ma: Q the 23r: 

August, iSS;. to Miss I.i/xie A 
of Barrie. 


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413 


&gt;OBERT A. LITTLE, B. A., 
Classical Master of the Col- 
_ legiate Institute, London, 
Ont., was born December agth, 1860, 
in the township of Blandford, County 
of Oxford. His parents were John and 
Agnes (Craig) Little. Mr. Little re 
ceived his early education at the public 
schools, continued it at Hamilton Col 
legiate Institute, and completed it at 
Toronto University. He graduated 
from the latter institution with the 
degree of B.A. in 1884. During his 
university course he won a scholarship 
in classics each year, and carried off 
the Lome Silver Medal in his second 


year. His successes as a student led 
to prominence as a professor. His first 
position as a teacher was that of classical 
master in Ridgetown Collegiate Insti 
tute, where he remained two years. In 
1886 he received his present appoint 
ment. Mr. Little is a member of St. 
Andrew s Presbyterian Church, and also 
of the Board of Management. He be 
longs to the craft of A.F. & A.M., and 
the Canadian Order of Foresters. In 
politics he is a Reformer. He was mar 
ried on December 3ist, 1890, to Miss 
Kate Eorsythe, of London, daughter of 
John Forsythe, who is well known in 
that city. 


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A TICHKL jos, KELLY, M.D., 

JL\ I LL.B., School Inspector, of 
^^ Brantford, Ont., was born in 
the city of Quebec in 1834. His father s 
family was connected for many years 
with the British navy. His mother 
was Kathcrine (Doyle) Kelly, a near 
relative of the celebrated Rev. Dr. 
James \Yarren Doyle and Chief-Justice 
he. Dr. Kelly received his early 
education in Quebec, and continued it 
at the lli.^li School and French Colu 
Montreal, and subsequently at Toronto 
Normal School and Toronto UUP, crsity. 
He first took up the arts course in 
Toronto, and afterwards the medical 


and law courses. He received tin- 
degree of M.B. with first-class honors. 
and subsequently the degree of M.I). 
and LL.B. He studied medicine in 
Montreal, New York, London, Ku.i;., 
Kdiuburgh, Paris and IIcidell&gt;erg. 1 : . 
Kelly commenced his can-rr as a 
teacher first in the public .schools, ; uid 
then in the Hiijh Schools of the Domi 
nion. Many yea lie declined a 
mastership in the Montreal Hi.^h 
School for private as. He at! 
wards taught in I px-r Canada Coll. 
for some time. IK- subsequently ]&gt; . 
ticed medicine for a short time, and 
also edited newspa] 


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kEV.CH AS. HENRY 

MOCKRIDGK, 

ALA., D.D., ii 
Ann street, Toronto, Ont., 
was born in Brantford in 
the County of Brant, on 
December i5th, 1844. He 
is a son of the late Rev. 
Jas. Mockridge, M. A., rector 
of St. George s Church, 
Belleville, Ont. The sub 
ject of our sketch received 
his education at the Brant- 
ford High School, and con 
tinued and completed it at 
Trinity University , Toronto, 
where he took successively 
the degree of B.A., M.A. 
B.D., and D.D., all by ex 
amination. He also won 
successively the Cameron 
and Dickson scholarships 
from this institution. He 
was successively head mas 
ter at Welland, St. Mary s 
and Clinton High schools. 
He was ordained deacon in 
the Church of England in 
1868, and priest in 1869 by 
Bishop Lewis, of Ontario. 
He has since served the 
Church at Madoc, Hillier, 
Hamilton, Windsor, N.S., and Toronto. 
He was rector of Christ Church Cathe 
dral, Hamilton, for nine years, and re 
signed it on account of conscientious 
objections which he had to the pew 
rent system. Dr. Mockridge was for 
many years Kxaminer of Divinity in 
arts course in Trinity University, and 
now lectures there regularly on Hoini- 
letics and Pastoral Theology. He was 
Clerical Secretary of the Synod of 
Toronto and also of Niagara, where he 
was appointed a canon of the Cathe 
dral. He is General Secretary of the 
Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Church of England in 


i 


Canada, and editor of the Canadian 
Church M. igazinc and Mission News. 
He is at present assistant clergyman 
at Hoi}- Trinity Church, Toronto. He 
is well known as a warm advocate of 
the temperance cause, and also of mis 
sion work, is a man of liberal views, 
high character and fine ability, espe 
cially as a preacher, and is highly 
esteemed by all denominations and 
parties, and he is doing a work in 
which all may rejoice. Dr. Mock 
ridge was married in October, 1871, 
to Sophia, fourth daughter of the late 
Rev. John Grier, A.M., rector of Belle 
ville. 


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V\ /ARRING KENNEDY, of Sam- 

&gt; V son, Kenned} & Co., Toronto, 
was born in the County of Down, Ire 
land. At an early age he was sent to 
Londonderry, where he received his 
education in a Grammar School, quali 
fying him for a business career. He 
commenced his business life as an ap 
prentice in a dry goods store in Kilrea, 
Ireland. After serving his apprentice 
ship IK- went to Belfast, where he re 
mained man} years and gained a 
thorough knowledge of business. He 
emigrated to Canada in i*5~, settling 
in Toronto, win-re, by his energy, in 
dustry, exemplary character and know 


ledge of business, he soon 
attracted the notice of com 
mercial men, and his ! 
vices wei /lit 

after. He received rapid 
advancement, passing from 
one position to another. 
until he was in receipt of a 
salary of $4,000 per annum. 
Thus having reached the 
top of the ladder as an em 
ployee, in 1869 he formed a 
partnership with two of his 
former fellow-workers and 
established a wholesale busi 
ness under the name of 
Samson, Kennedy & Gem- 
mel. Mr. Samson and Mr. 
Geminel are both deceased, 
but the firm continues as 
Samson, Kennedy &. Co., 
doing one of the largest 
wholesale trades in the 
Dominion. He also occu 
pies a conspicuous place in 
religious matters, being a 
leading meml&gt;er of the 
Methodist Church, a local 
preacher, Sabbath School 
superintendent and trustee. 
He is on many of the Con 
ference Committees, and has 
been a delegate to several General Con 
ferences. He has filled various public 
offices, was elected alderman in iSji. 
He was president of the Irish Protestant 
Benevolent Association in 1872, and in 
1873 was first president of the Canada 
Commercial Travellers Association. 
He is chairman of the Toroir ral 

Burying Ground trusts, embracing 
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Necropolis 
and Prospect Cemetery, and is senior 
honorary secretary of the Upper Canada 
Bible Society. Lustjnn 
ed secretary of the Toronto Con: 
and was a dele-ate to the Kcumcnical 
Council lately held in Washington. I &gt; X 


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417 


l STERNBERGH CAMP 
BELL, treasurer of Brant 
County, Brantford, Out., was born on 
the 25th of February, 1840, in the 
township of Brantford, on the farm 
where he now resides. His parents 
were Arch. I), and Catherine (Stern- 
bergh) Campbell. Our subject received 
his education at the township public- 
school, and at a Commercial Coll. 
in Buffalo. In connection with tin- 
many public positions and offices of 
trust held by Mr. Campbell, he follows 
the business of farming on an extended 
scale, and is well known as a dealer in 
live stock and thoroughbred cattle. 


He was elected township councillor in 
1866 and 1867. He was deputy reeve 
until 1873, warden of the county in 
1873, and reeve until 1875, when he- 
was appointed treasurer of Brant 
County and also of Brantford town 
ship. Mr. Campbell is a Justice of tin- 
Peace, inspector and treasurer of Brant 
House of Refuse, and a director of 
the Royal Loan and Savings Co., and 
discharges his duties with fidelity. 
IK- is a member of the I.OO.F. 
and A.O.U.W. Mr. Campbell was 
married September iSth, 1X71, to Miss 
Mary E. Hawley. His family consists 
of four boys and two virls. 


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JOHN CAMERON, founder and 
president of the London Ad 
vertiser Printing Co., London, 
Ont., was born January 2ist, 1843, at 
Markham, Ont. He received his edu 
cation at the Stouffville and London 
public schools. At an earl) age he was 
apprenticed to the printer s trade in 
London, and, when only twenty-one, 
started the London Advertiser as an 
evening paper, which has gone on ever 
since, developing into the principal 
newspaper in Ontario, outside of To 
ronto. Mr. Cameron is president and 
controlling owner of the London Ad 
vertiser Printing Co. He was for seven 


or eight years, after the death of Hon. 
George Brown, chief editor of the 
Toronto Globe. He has been president 
of the Canadian Press Association, 
president of the Ontario Temperance 
Alliance, and is now officially connected 
with temperance and benevolent \\&lt;&gt;ik 
in various ways. He is an elder of 
Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
London, and has been a delegate to the 
General Assembly. He is also the 
author of the book entitled " A Cana 
dian in Knr&gt; Mr. Cameron was 
married in iSoc; to Kli/.ul&gt;eth. daughter 
the lati D and Adjutant David 
Millar, Royal Canadian 


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419 


&gt;EV. FATHER GEORGE R 
NORTHGRAVES, Ingersoll, 
_s&gt; Out., was born on February 
25th, 1834, at Bytovvn, now the city of 
Ottawa. He received his education at 
private schools, and at the Grammar 
School, Belleville. His theological 
education was pursued at St. Michael s 
College, Toronto. He afterwards taught 
for a time in this institution. In the 
year i,S6i he received the appointment 
of rector of Toronto Cathedral, which 
position he occupied for two years. In 
[863 he was appointed the Dean of 
Barne and in the year 1870 he return 
ed to Toronto to the Cathedral, where 


he remained until 1874. 
when he was appointed 
rector of the London" Cathe 
dral. In 1878 he was ap 
pointed to Stratford, Out., 
and after laboring success 
fully a few years there, he 
was appointed to Ingersoll. 
In the year 1886 he assumed 
the editorial control of the 
Catholic Record, published 
at London, Out., and he has 
continued in that position 
since. Since his connection 
with this paper, it has 
greatly improved from a 
literary standpoint, and its 
circulation has increased to 
such an extent that it has 
now the largest circulation 
of any Catholic paper in 
the Dominion. In the year 
1885 Father Xorthgraves 
published his celebrated 
book, "The Mistakes of 
Modern Infidels," it being 
a reply to Robert Ingersoll. 
This book, which bears evi 
dence of the highest theo 
logical and classical learn 
ing, has already reached 
three editions, and is re 
garded as the best work of the kind that 
has been written in defence of Chris 
tianity during this generation. It has 
received exhaustive commendations, 
both from the secular and religion.-, 
press of Catholic and Protestant de 
nominations, and from eminent scholars 
of all creeds as well. This work is in 
tended to supply the Christian public 
with a handbook which will answer 
the most mischievous of modern scep 
tics objections against the truth and 
inspiration of Holy Scripture, and it 
furnishes a reliable synopsis of the 
arguments whereby these attributes of 
vScripture can be maintained. 


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LBERT BEVERLY 
WKLFORD, 

-- M.R. Toronto Uni 
versity, nn.-inlx.-r of the- Col- 

C of Physicians and Sur 
geons, and M. R. C. S. Eng 
land, Woodstock, Out., was 
born on the 2nd June, 1853, 
in Blandford township, Ox 
ford County. He is the 
youngest of a family of 
nine. His father was third 
son of the late Richard 
Welford, of Marlboro, who 
practised law at Lincolns- 
in-Field, London, Eng., and 
who was an author of legal 
works accepted by the Eng 
lish Bar, and brother of the 
late Judge Welford, of Bir 
mingham. His mother, who 
is still living, was born in 
Chester, Eng., and came to 
this country sixty years 
ago. The subject of our 
sketch received his educa 
tion at the High School, 
"\Voodstock, Trinity College, 
Toronto, and London, Eng., 
under the teachings of Sir 
William MacConnick and 
Sir Morrel McKenxie. He 
remained on the old homestead farm 
in Oxford County until about eighteen 
years of age, when he engaged for a 
short period in the telegraph business. 
In 1873 he engaged with Stark & 
Revelle, druggists, Woodstock, where 
he remained three years. He then ac- 

tx-d a position with Shapter & 
Jeffrey, druggists, Toronto, having 

~.ed the chemists and druggist ex 
amination be-fore the College of Phar 
macy, Toronto, carrying off first prize 
out of a class of thirty-five or forty 
graduates. He afterwards graduated 
in medicine and began his profession in 
\Yoodstock in iSSr in partnership with 


the late George Locke Beard. 1 &gt;r. 
Welford makes a specialty of disea 
of the eye, ear and nose. He has been 
very successful, especially in surgery, 
and has gained a large connection. 1 h 
is surgeon to the County Gaol, the ( i rand 
Trunk Railway, examiner for Canada 
Life, Equitable, and other prominent in 
surance companies. He is a member of 
the Church of England. Dr. Wei: 
has been twice married first, in iSSi, 
to Isabel Johnston, eldest daughtei 
F. R. Ball, (j C., Woodstock, who died 
in iSS6; and in jSsS Margaret HaKon, 
eldest daughter of J. II:iK..n I .mwn, 

; stock. 


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421 


JOSEPH E. McDOU- 
GALL, Q.C., To- 

ronto,County Judge 
and Judge of the Maritime 
Court of Ontario, was born 
March, 1846, at Toronto. 
He is the eldest son of Hon. 
Wm. McDougall, C.B., the 
well-known Canadian jour 
nalist, politician and states 
man. Our subject received 
his education at the Model 
Grammar School and Upper 
Canada College, winning 
two of the college scholar 
ships. Upon leaving col 
lege he began the study of 
law with Messrs. Currie & 
Brown, St. Catharines, sub 
sequently with Robert Lees, 
Q.C., County Attorney of 
Carleton, and afterwards 
with Messrs. Patterson cc 
Beatty, Toronto. He was 
called to the Bar in 1870 
and commenced the practice 
of his profession a partner 
with his father, but soon 
afterwards organized the 
firm of McDougall, English 
cc McDougall. After sev 
eral changes in that firm, 
the firm of McDougall & Gordon was 
formed in 1875, with which he remain 
ed connected until iSSi. Then, on tilt- 
elevation of Hon. Thomas Ferguson/ 
Q.C., to the Bench, he obtained a part 
nership in the well-known firm of Fer 
guson, Bain, Gordon & Shepley, the 
firm then became Bain, Mcl)o*ii&lt;r a ll 
Gordon cc Shcpley. The large busi 
ness connection of his new partners 
offered him an opportunity for display 
ing his rare talents and aptitude for all 
branches of legal business, and he be 
came concerned in many very important 
cases. Judge McDougall was several 
years lecturer to the Law Societv and 


examiner in the subject of Criminal 
Law. In 1882 he was elected president 
of Osgpode Literary Society. In 1883 
he received his silk gown, and the same 
year was appointed Junior Judge of 
York County, and in iSSs was ap 
pointed Senior Judge and Judye of the 
Maritime Court of Ontario. His clear 
judgments and just decisions make him 
universally respected. He was chair 
man of Toronto Public Library f,, r 
1890, and is vice-president of Toronto 
Homoepathic Hospital Hoard. Judge 
McDougall was married in November, 
1871, to Jane M.. second daughter of 
the late Rex. J. I;. Howard. 


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I^RANCIS RAMSAY BALL, Q.C., 
_J Count} Crown Attorney and 
Clerk of the Peace, Woodstock, 
Ont., was born on November 5th, 1827, 
in the township of Niagara, Out. His 
ancestors came to this continent from 
Germany in the year 1826. At the 
Revolutionary War in 1776, his grand 
father and great grandfather joined the 
British service and held commissions 
in Butler s Rangers, serving until the 
o of the war, and then settled at 
Niagara. The subject of our sketch 
still holds the farm at Niagara which 
was granted to his grandfather for 
his services during the revolution. 


Mr. Ball recci\cd his edu 
cation at the (irammar 
iool in the town of 
Niagara under I &gt;r. White- 
law. Ik- commenced the 
study of law with the late 
Chas. L. Hall, of Niagara, 
and completed his studies 
with the late Judge Burns, 
of Toronto. He was ad 
mitted to the Bar in the 
year 1850, and immediately 
began his profession at 
Woodstock, where he has 
continued to practice since. 
In the year 1863 Mr. Ball 
was appointed Clerk of the 
Peace and County Crown 
Attorney, which positions 
he still holds. In addition 
to these offices, he is also 
County Solicitor. In 1856 
he contested the South Rid 
ing of Oxford in the in 
terests of the Reform party, 
and failed to get elected by 
one vote. He was appoint 
ed Q.C. by the Ontario Gov 
ernment in March, 1876. 
He has been such a busy 
man in his own profession 
that he has had to refuse 
many important positions that have 
been offered him. During his long 
and valuable life he has adorned his 
profession by bringing to it his best 
thought and effort, supplemented by 
energy and perseverance. Mr. Ball 
has been twice married first, to M 
Millicent C. Thompson, daughter of 
Andrew Thompson, late of Port 1 )o 
Out., and again to Miss Agues, daugh 
ter of the late Captain Baxter, of the 
Royal Canadian Rifles. His family 
consists of seven children three sons 
and four daughters. His son Robert 
is a barrister and a partner with his 
father. 


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\\/II!LIAM GEORGE STORM, 

^&gt; &gt; R.C.A., Architect and Civil 
Engineer, Toronto, Out., was born on 
October 2o,th, 1826, at Burton-upon- 
Stather, Lincolnshire, Eng. His par 
ents were Thomas and Mary Storm. 
Mr. Storm received his education at 
private schools in Toronto. After com 
pleting his education, he studied archi 
tecture and civil engineering. lie was 
professionally engaged in the erection 
of St. James Cathedral, the Normal 
School, St. Andrew s Church, Osgoode 
Hall, and the University of Toronto, 
besides many other public buildings. 
He is now engaged in the erection of 


Victoria College in Queen s Park, 
Toronto. Mr. Storm in religion is a 
member of the Church of England. 
In politics he is a Conservative, and 
formerly took an active interest in poli 
tical matters, but does not do so now. 
He is a member of the Masonic frater 
nity, in which body he was an enthusi 
astic worker in early life, and filled all 
the important offices of that society, 
having been Grand Master of Toronto 
district in 1860. He is also a Knight 
Templar of hi^h standing. He is pre 
sident of the Architectural Association 
of Ontario, and is a member of the 
Royal Canadian Academy of Artists. 


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CANADA. 


TJ DMUND MEREDITH, Q.C., of 
J &gt; London, Out., was born in that 

^-^ city on the ist March, 1845. 
His father was John Walsmgham 
Cooke Meredith, for many years Clerk 
of the Division Court, who died in 
iSSi. His mother was Sarah (Pegler) 
Meredith, who is still living. Our sub- 

t was educated at the Grain mar 

tool, London, and Baptist College, 
Woodstock. He studied law in the 
office of Scatchard & Meredith, Lon 
don, and was admitted to the liar in 

&lt;). He tlu-n commenced to practice 
in London with his brother R. M., now 
Mr. Justice Meredith. This partner 


ship continued until the latter was ap 
pointed to the Bench. In 1890 he formed 
the present partnership of Meredith, 
Cameron & Judd. Mr. Meredith has 
been a member of the City Council, 
and was mayor in 1883 and 1884. In 
politics he is a leading Conservative, 
having contested the riding of Nortli 
Middlesex in 1884 for the Provincial 
Legislature, and, after a gallant light, 
was defeated by only thirty-four vol 
In religion he is an Episcopalian. He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
Mr. Meredith was married in i 
Miss Theresa McCann, daughter of I*. 
McCaun, London. 


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RALPH MEREDITH, 
LL.D., Q.C., London, Leader 
of the Opposition of the Ontario Legis 
lature, was born in Westminister town 
ship, Middlesex County, March ^ist, 
1840. His parents were John C. and 
Sarah (Pegler) Meredith. His father 
was for many years Clerk of the Divi 
sion Court for Middlesex County. W. 
R. Meredith was educated at the Gram 
mar School, London, and Toronto 
University. He was called to the 
I!ar in 1861, and soon established an 
important practice in London. His 
knowledge of law is extensive and 
sound, and lie is regarded as the lead 


Chancery lawyer in Western On 
tario. He is solicitor for the city of 
London, was elected as Bencher of the 
Law Society in 1871, and has been re- 
elected at each subsequent election and 
created a O.C. in 1876. In 1872 he 
was elected for London to the Ontario 
Legislature, and has been returned at 
every general election since. In poli 
tics he is staunch Liberal-Conservative. 
Mr. Meredith s private and public char 
acter is above reproach, and his ability 
in the political sphere is very marked. 
In religion he is an Episcopalian. Ik- 
was married June 26th, 1802, to Miss 
Mary Holmes, of London, Out. 


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&gt;^J A. MAYBERRY, B.A., LL.B., 
( . Principal of Stratford Colle- 
^ - ^^&gt; giate Institute, was born on 
August 1 6th, 1856, in West Oxford, 
County of Oxford, Out. He received 
his early education at School Section 
N &gt;. 2 of his native home, Ingersoll 
High School, and Brantford Collegiate 
Institute, passing from thence to To 
ronto I "ni vc-rsity. He graduated from 
the latter institution with the degree of 
B.A. in jSSj, with honors in Classics, 
and obtained tlu- dc-v-e of I.L.B. fnmi 
the same institution in the year 18 
His early life was spent on a farm, and 
he be^an school teaching at the 


twenty. He first taught in School 
Section No. 2, West Zorra, and then in 
No. 8, East Nissouri, Oxford County, 
for some time. In the year iSSo la- 
taught in Brantford Collegiate Institute. 
In 1882 he began teaching in Stratford 
Collegiate Institute as classical master, 
and the Board of Trustee-., having a 
high estimate of his ability, appointed 
him Principal of that institute in the 
year 1890. Mr. Maybcrry is an ad 
herent of Knox Probyterian Church, 
Stratford. He held the office of presi 
dent of Perth Teacher s Association in 
i.SS). I le \\;is married r 271)1, 

1880, to Miss Ktt.i Craig, Brantford. 


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EV. ALEX. STEWART, M.A., of 
&lt; )rillia, Out., \vas born on the 3rd of 
October, 1804, at Huntley, Aber- 
decnshire, Scotland. His father was Dr. John 
Stewart of that place. He was educated at the 
old town college of Aberdeen, and in January, 
1841, was ordained priest of the Church of 
England, in Canada, at the city of Halifax 
by the Lord Bishop of that day. Mr. Stewart 
then became curate of Trinity Church, St. 
John, N.B. Tn 1856 he removed to Upper 
Canada and settled in Toronto, -where he be 
came curate to Dr. James \V. Dewolfe. Gray. 
He was subsequently appointed over St. 
George s Church, Kingston, where he re 
mained for five and one half years, and in 1862 
became rector of St. John s Trinity Church, 
Orillia, over which he presided for the long 
period of twenty-seven years until iSSy, when 
hi- resigned the charge and was succeeded 
by the present incumbent, the Rev. Canon 
\\. \\~. E. Greene. Mr. Stewart was married to 
Miss Maria Jarvis, of St. John, N.B. , who died 
in 1884. His family consists of three daughters 
and one sun. 


VV^ILLIAM JAMES KNOWLES, of 
V V Knowles &lt;!t Nott, hardware mer 
chants, Brantford, was born on the 2oth of 
March, 1855, at Elora, Out. His father car 
ried on a hardware business at Elora, Elmira 
and Toronto, and is now living retired at the 
latter place. The subject of our sketch re 
ceived his education st the public and High 
schools of Elora. He commenced the hardware 
business with his father at Elmira, remaining 
there until twenty years of age, when he bought 
out the business and carried it &lt;m alone for 
two years. He then removed to Toronto, and 
in iSSo he came t&lt;&gt; Brantford, taking a posi 
tion in the hardware store of Goold & Agncw, 
and, on the death of the latter, entered into 
partnership with Mr. Goold. Tn 1887 he pur 
chased the business in connection with his 
present partner. He is also largely interested 
in the Goold Bicycle \Vorks, and is manager 
of the same. Mr. Knowles in religion is a 
Presbyterian, and in politics a Reformer. Ik- 
is a member &lt;&gt;f the Brant ford Hoard of Trade. 
lie married Miss Maria Kenning, of Elmira, 
on December 26th, 1875. 


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GvS 
I". CAMP, St. Catharines, was born 
* on the i ;th May, 1857. at Thorold, 
Out. lie received his preliminary education 
at the public school of St. Catharines, and 
afterwards attended the Collegiate Institute, 
under the principalship of Dr. Hunter. After 
leaving school in 1875, he went to Toronto 
and spent three years in learning surveying. 
In 1877 he was one of a surveying expedition 
to Algoma, and returned the year afterwards 
to St. Catharines, where he entered his father s 
office as clerk until 1882, when he was taken 
into partnership. The partnership continued 
until 1888, when his father went to Toronto, 
leaving the business, which is still continued 
under the title of Camp & Son, in his charge. 
The business, which embraces fire, life and 

lent insurance, is one of the largest in 
&lt; hitario. and is steadily increasing. Mr. Camp 
rep: iie leading Canadian, American 

and English Insurance Companies. In politics 
he i-- a C"iiM-rvat ; .v&lt;-. and in religion a Metho 
dist. He was married on the 5th of Juno, 

. t.i Mary J.. dam;!: I .ier, 

St. Cathari:. 


JOHN FERGUSON PAUJNG, M.D., 
Barrie, Ont., was born at Medonte, 
Simcoe County, on the i-jth of 
August, 1862. He is the son of Charles and 
Ellen Ferguson Palling, who were of Knglish 
and Irish parentage. He received his educa 
tion at Allandale public school and Barrie 
Collegiate Institute, and afterwards, in 1884, 
entered Trinity Medical College, Toronto, 
where he graduated with first-class honors in 
i8S8. After pissing the examinations of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario, 
he began his present practice in Barrie. IK 
is a member of the Church of England, of 
the Masonic Brotherhood, the Canadian ( tnler 
of Foresters, Independent Order of ] 
and other organizations. In polilirs he i&gt; a 
Conservative. Dr. Palling is a rising man in 
his i :i, and has ah 

patronage, not only in Barrie, but in the sur 
rounding country, and, from present in&lt;!: 
tiotis, he will soon take a leading : 
medical men. I . married in 

Margaret Ann Steele, daughter of Jn-tph 
&gt;nt. 


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"Y\7lUJAM D. EDY, 
*" r photographer, Lon 
don, Out., was born on the 
24th of February, 1832, in 
the township of Burford, 
County of Brant. He re 
ceived his education at 
public and private schools. 
He started life as a fanner 
in the township of Town- 
send, County of Norfolk, 
on a rented farm, and when 
about twenty-two years of 
age purchased one in Brant 
County. He followed the 
business of fanning with 
success until thirty-five 
years of age, during that 
time he had several farms 
pass through his hands. 
He then joined his brother, 
the late J. M. Edy, in the 
business of photograph}- in 
the city of Brantford, where 
his brother had previously 
carried on this art for a 
number of years. The firm 
attained distinction while in 
Brantford, and conducted a 
large business. They were 
the first in Ontario to adopt 
the practice of retouching 
negatives, which brought them into 
prominence. During their stay at 
Brantford they produced an oil paint 
ing from a minature on ivory made in 
England of Capt. Joseph Brant, which 
was presented to Prince Arthur through 
Lord Dufferin. In the year 1879 the 
Kdy Brothers opened a studio in Lon 
don, where they have been very success 
ful, doing a leading trade with the best 
people of the city. For thirteen years 
the\ have carried off the first pri/e at 
the \Yesteru and Provincial fairs held 
at London, and obtained the gold medal 
in 1891. The firm is at present com 
posed of our subject and his son, E. L. 


Edy, and conducted in the old firm 
name of Edy Brothers. Mr. E. L. Edy 
is said to be one of the most skilful 
photographers in Canada, and certainly 
the work produced by him possesses 
merit of a very high order. There is 
a richness and delicacy about his work 
rarely seen. Mr. V\". 1). Edy has 
been twice married first, in the year 
I854i to Miss Melinda Ilaviland, of 
Boston, Ont, who died in iS;; v Hi- 
was married again, in the year 1875, to 
Miss Mary, daughter of the late Capt. 
Henry llo\vell. Mr. Edy is an earnest 
Christian man, and is esteemed wher 
ever known. 


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\ G. SANDERSON, D.D., 

Methodist minister, London, 
Out., was born at Kingston 
in 1816. He received a good home 
education, and pursued his theological 
studies at Upper Canada Academy out 
of which Victoria University has 
arisen. Before ordination he travelled 
the Thames circuit, then Newmarket, 
Grimsby and Hamilton. He was or 
dained in 1841 and appointed first 
to Stamford, then St. Catharines, then 
Toronto, where he was elected editor of 
the ( lirislian (inardian^ which position 
he ably filled for five years. He was 
then pastor at Cobourg three years, dur 


hich time he was elected 

secretary of the Conference, 
He was then appointed 
Hook Steward at Toronto. 
the duties of which he faith 
fully discharged for four 
years. In 1859 he was sent 
to London, remaining there 
three years. In 1860 he 
was elected chairman of 
London district, which posi 
tion he held on the several 
Districts which lie occupied 
afterwards. In 1861 he was 
elected Representative to 
Wesleyan Conference of 
Great Britain, in 1871 Dr. 
Puushon s co-delegate, and 
in 1872 Representative to 
the General Conference of 
the M. E. Church in the 
United States. After leav 
ing London in 1862, he oc 
cupied the following circuits, 
remaining in each three 
years: Port Hope, Picton, 
Belleville, Kingston, St. 
Catharines, London (Wel 
lington Street), London 
(Dundas Street East), 
Strathroy, and Sarnia from 
1886 to 1887. I" t nc latter 
year, having been 51 years in the work, 
he retired from the active ministry and 
settled in London, where he had spent 
nine years as a pastor. Mr. Sanderson 
was president of the Conference in 
1876, and again in 1885, was a delegate 
to the First General Conference at 
Toronto in 1874, and to the General 
Conference at Montreal in 1878. The 
honorary degree of D.D. was conferred 
upon him by the University of Victoria 
in 1877. Although retired. Dr. San 
derson still preaches frequently at 
special services, church openings, anni- 
ver ]! i&gt; a fine specimen 

of the Christian minister. 


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JOHN CALVIN SMITH, banker, 
Seaforth, Out., was born April 
nth, 1857, a t Bowmanville, 
Out. He is the eldest son of the late 
Rev. John Smith, minister of Erskitie 
Presbyterian Church, Toronto. The 
subject of our sketch received his edu 
cation at the public and High schools 
of Bowmanville. On leaving school 
he entered the bunk at Port Perry, 
where he remained for a few months. 
Afterwards he occupied positions at 
different places, including Toronto. 
He then joined the staff of the liank 
of Commerce, in which he remained 
four years, with much satisfaction to that 


institution. Mr. Smith was married to 
Miss Belle Taylor, daughter of Chief 
Justice Taylor, of Manitoba, on July 
3ist, 1883, by whom he has one child. 
In the year 1888 he commenced the 
business of private banking in Sea 
forth, which he still carries on. He 
enjoys the full confidence of the busi 
ness and farming community, and does 
a most successful banking business. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and takes an active interest in 
all church work. He is president &lt;&gt;t 
the Christian Endeavor Society, and a 
faithful worker in the Sabbath School. 
In politics he is a Reformer. 


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THOMAS D. FAWCETT, L.D.S., 

-*- London, Out., was born on the 
1 3th March, 1866, at St. George, Brant 
County, Out. He is a grandson of the 
late Rev. Thos. Fawcett, a well known 
Methodist minister. His father was a 
dentist, and died at St. George in 1866. 
His mother is still living, and resides 
with her son at London. Dr. Fawcett 
received his earlier education at St. 
George public school and Dufferin Col 
lege. London. He received his profes 
sional education at the Royal Coll- 
of Dental Surgeons. Toronto, and was 
also a student under I 1 . M. Harvey. 
L.D.S., London. Out. He graduated 


from the College of Dental Surgeons 
in the year 1891, and immediately com 
menced his profession in London, and 
here he has alread} acquired a very 
encouraging practice. Mr. Fawcett 
attentive and capable, is a young man 
of the highest character, of gentleman 
ly appearance, and popular with his 
patients. With his thorough educa 
tion, solid talents, and devotion to his 
profession, it is not difficult to foretell 
a successful career for this young dental 
surgeon. Mr. Fawcett was united in 
marriage with Mi&gt;s May. daughter 
Jan . &lt;f Hamilton, Out., on 

the Ljtl: obcr, 1891. 


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RTHUR L. VAN- 
STONE, merchant, 
^ Brantford, Ont., 
was born on October 5th, 
1857, at Tyrone, in the 
County of Durham, Ont. 
His parents are Samuel and 
Elizabeth (Elford) Van- 
stone. His father, who was 
a merchant miller in Bow- 
manville for many years, is 
now living a retired life 
there. The subject of our 
sketch received his educa 
tion at the public and High 
schools at Bowmauville and 
Port Hope. He matricu 
lated into Toronto Univer 
sity in the year 1878, and 
obtained a second - class 
teacher s certificate in the 
same year. He afterwards 
attended the Normal School 
at Ottawa. He then fol 
lowed the teaching profes 
sion for nearly four years, 
when he gave it up to enter 
business life. He first en 
gaged in the grain and mill 
ing business at Bowman- 

ville. In the year 1885 he 

purchased a grocery and 
crockery business in the city of Brant- 
ford, which business he is still carrying 
on, and has made it one of the inost 
important in his line in the city. This 
is largely due to his ready grasp of the 
requirements of his trade, whether in 
buying or selling. He is regarded by 
all who have business dealings with him 
as an honest and capable man. He is 
admirably adapted to meeting the gen 
eral public, having a most genial de 
portment, and, being possessed of 
strong social qualities, he makes him 
self agreeable to all with whom he 
comes in contact. Mr. Yanstone in 
religion is a member of the Methodist 


Church, having joined that body in the 
year 1874 while attending the High 
School at Port Hope. He is at present 
a leading member of Wellington Street 
Methodist Church, Brantford, being a 
trustee and pe\v steward of that church. 
Iu politics he is a Reformer, but does 
not take an active part in political 
affairs. ^ He belongs to the Society of 
Royal Templars of Temperance, "and 
the Ancient Order United Workmen. 
Air. Vanstone was married on the 22nd 
of November, 1882, to Mis.s Annie 
Sinclair, daughter of Robert Sinclair, 
of Bowmanville, Out., where our sub 
ject first engaged in business. 


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CANADA. 


: &lt;rV^ BALLANTYXE, 

1\ B.A., pastor of Knox Presby- 
V^ terian Church, London, Out., 
was born on the 22nd of August, 1857, 
at Stratford, County of Perth, Out. 
His father is the Hon. Thos. Ballan- 
tyne, Speaker of the Legislative As 
sembly of Ontario, and his mother is 
Mary, daughter of the late Robert 
Ballantyne, of the township of Downie, 
Perth County. The subject of our 
sketch received his education at the 
public school of Downie township, St. 
Mary s High School, Gait Collegiate 
Institute, (under the celebrated 1 &gt;r. 
Tassie), and at Toronto University. 


He matriculated into the 
University from Gait Colle 
ge Institute in iS^u, and 
-uluatecl in iSSi &gt; with first- 
class honors in modern lan 
guages, and also carried oft" 
various pri/es during his 
college COUne. lie received 
his theological education in 
Knox College, graduating 
from that institution in the 
year i SS 3. He also attend 
ed the Theological Seminal v 
at Princeton, N.J.. for one 
year, and spent one- year in 
the Theological Halls 
Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
at Leipsic, Germany. In 
April, 1885, he was ordain 
ed and inducted into the 
pastorate of Knox Church, 
London, where he has con 
tinued to labor with g: 
acceptability since. I It \\-a.s 
introduced to his present 
charge by the late Kev. 
Thomas McPherson, who 
was for many years pastor 
of Knox Church, Stratford, 
and who was the pastor of 
Mr. Ballantyiie s parents, 
and by whom he was bap- 
tixed. He joined the church on pro- 
sion of faith in the year 1877. I Ie \ 
one of the most accomplished scholars of 
his class at Knox College, and has been 
eminently successful in his pastorate. 
The membership of the church and 
congregation has very greatly increa- 
under his care, and he is held in high 
esteem, not only by his own peo: 
but by members of other churches and 
the public generally. Mr. Uallaiitvne 
is still young with a bright futi; 
He was married on the uth January. 
1886, to Miss Florence Clarke, daugh 
ter of the Hon. Charl kc, of 
Klora, County of Wellington, 


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TTLFRED HUTCHINSON 

\ D Y M O N D, Principal of the 
V Ontario Institution for the 
Blind, Brantford, Out., was born at 
Croydon, Eng., in August, 1827. He 
married, June, 1852, Helen Susannah, 
daughter of Mr. John Henderson, of 
Southwark. .Mr. Dymond was engaged 
for several years in advocating the 
abolition of capital punishment and 
lectured and wrote extensively on that 
question. He joined, in 1857, the 
Morning S(a&gt;\ of London, England in 
1866 became its manager. As a Liberal 
in politics, he took an active share in 
many movements formed to promote a 


Liberal policy, particularly 
the Constitutional Defence 
Association, called for by 
the resistance of the House 
of Lords to the abolition of 
the paper duty in 1860, and 
the Emancipation Society, 
organized to elicit an ex 
pression of public opinion 
in favor of the Union during 
the American Civil War. 
In 1869 Mr. Dymond settled 
in Toronto, joining the edi 
torial staff of the Toronto 
Globe. From his arrival in 
Canada he identified himself 
with the Liberal part} , and 
in 1874 was elected M.P. for 
Xorth York, which constitu 
ency he represented during 
the ensuing parliamentary 
term. In parliament he was 
opposed to all protective 
tariffs, advocated the claims 
of Canada to make her own 
copyright laws, also the 
right of defendants in crim 
inal cases to give evidence 
in their own behalf, and 
carried the Common As 
saults Act, in which that 
principle was for the first 
time embodied in legislation. From 
1878 to 1880 he was occupied in pre 
paring official reports and holding com 
missions of enquiry for the Ontario 
Government. In 1880 he acted as the 
executive member of the Ontario Agri 
cultural Commission, and compiled 
the voluminous report, in \vhich the 
evidence taken was condensed and 
digested. In i SSo he accepted the posi 
tion he still holds. Principal Dymond 
takes a deep interest in the affairs of 
the Anglican Church, of which he is a 
member and a lay reader. He is also 
chairman of the Huron Anglical Lay 
Workers Association. 


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\\/M! X. ROBKRT- 

&gt;&gt; SOX, M.D..C.M., 
L.R.C.T. &S. Edinburgh, 
Stratford, Out., \v. , in 

the year 1857 at Stratford. 
He received his education 
at a village hamlet called 
Monkton in Perth County. 
He was prepared for medical 
matriculation at Pickering 
College and by private 
study. He received a di 
ploma from the Hamilton 
Business College in 1875, 
and afterwards spent five 
years as a book-keeper. 
While acting in this capa 
city and leading a quiet, 
studious, and economical 
life, he acquired the means 
to complete his medical 
training. He graduated in 
the Toronto School of Medi 
cine in 1884, and in Edin 
burgh in 1885. After gra 
duating in Edinburgh he 
went as surgeon on a steam 
ship to India, remaining 
there only a short time, but 
in that time gaining a fair 
idea of Oriental life. This 
was at the time of the Zulu 
war, and there was considerable excite 
ment in the army and navy. Return 
ing to Glasgow, he acted for a time as 
assistant practitioner. Upon the de 
cease of Dr. Mothersill, of Stratford, 
in 1885, he bought out his fixtures 
and at once commenced practice there. 
Being a total abstainer from stimulants 
and narcotics, and possessed of great 
energy and ambition, he has been suc- 
Bftu in building tip one of the 
largest practices in the county in which 
lie : He is also one of the active 

staff of the General Hospital, Strat 
ford. Dr. Robertson is a faithful mem- 
of the Presbyterian Church, and 


was an active Sunday School worker 
until his extensive practice necessitated 
his giving it up. In politics he is an 
Independent Conservative, but he takes 
no active part in any work outside the 
church, his time being fully devoted to 
his profession. In his early days he 
was very fond of out-door sports, always 
desirous of fostering physical culture. 
In later 3 ears he has won many laurels 
as a bicyclist on the wheel called " The 

Dr. Robertson continm 
believe that much of the suffering of 
the body may be avoided by giving 

&gt;er care and attention to the d&lt; 
lopment of the physical 1. 


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ALCOLM GRAEME BREM- 
\I ,R, editor-in-chief of the 
^ Free Press, London, Out., 
was born October nth, 1847, at Hants, 
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. He is of 
Anglo-Scottish descent. His parents 
having emigrated to Canada in 1856, at 
an early age he engaged in the printing 
business, serving for several years in 
its practical branches. At the age of 
eighteen he was chosen to fill the posi 
tion on the Firr J n-ss editorial staff, 
which had been vacated by Mr. Mack 
intosh, the present member for Ottawa. 
From that time Mr. Bremner steadily 
gained in reputation as a studious, 


ready and tireless worker on this jour 
nal. His history is coincident with the 
history of the Fire I ITSS, on which he 
lias labored without intermission since 
1865 as the trusted assistant and col 
league of the late eminent editor, Mr. 
Josiah Blackburn. On the death of 
Mr. Blackburn in 1890, Mr. Bremner 
was appointed his successor in the edi 
torial control, a position for which he 
had long been designated by his old and 
beloved chief. Mr. Bremner has never 
aspired to public office, but devotes all 
his powers t&lt;&gt; the service of the journal, 
in the success and progress of which In- 
has been so largely concerned. 


MEN OK CA.NAMA. 


,E&gt; 

London, Out., Rector of Christ 
Church, Canon of the Cathe 
dral, and Rural Dean of Middlesex, 
was born on the 23rd of September, 
1841, at Brantford. He received his 
education at the public and high schools 
there, and Huron College, London. 
I hiring his educational course he taught 
school three years. In 1 866 he was or 
dained 1 )eacon and appointed Incumbent 
of Helmont, Middlesex County, and or 
dained Priest in 1867. In 1X71 be was ap 
pointed Incumbent of St. John s Church, 
Strathroy, and in was appointed 

Rector of Christ Church, London, his 


present charge. In 1873 he was created 
Rural Dean of Middlesex, and in iS.Sr 
Canon of the Cathedral. Canon Smith 
is Registrar and Bursar of the Western 
University, Registrar and Treasurer of 
the Chapter of the Cathedral ;ry 

and Treasurer of the Colonial and Con 
tinental Church Society, President of 
Huron* iation, President of 

the Sunday School Association of Mid 
dle . aerv, and a mem iri- 
ous imju-rtant church commit Mr. 
Smith was married July 12th, i^&lt;&gt;_&gt;, to 
Re iiti-r of J. Likins, 
. J.P.. I .rantford. He has one son 
and four daughter 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


439 


, AVID HAMILTON 

HUNTER, B.A., 

Principal of Wood 
stock Collegiate Institute, 
was born on the 4th July, 
1845, near Brampton, Out. 
He received his education 
at the public school No. 6, 
South Dumfries, to which 
township the family moved 
in 1857, and at Paris and 
Gait Grammar schools. He 
matriculated with honors in 
every department from the 
latter institution into To 
ronto University in 1862. 
After attending the univer 
sity one year he obtained 
a first-class certificate grade 
"A" and taught public 
school No. 27, South Dum 
fries, one year. He then 
became principal of St. 
George public school, which 
position he held four years, 
when he returned to the 
university and graduated 
B.A. in 1871. After re 
ceiving his degree he was 
engaged as colleague to Mr. 
Alex. McMillan, principal 
of Rockwood Academy, 
where he remained one year, when he 
left to begin his career as a High 
School teacher. His first appointment 
was to the head mastership of Water- 
down High School in 1872. This in 
stitution, under his management for 
twelve years, was placed in the first 
rank of High Schools. In 1884 he 
accepted a unanimous invitation from 
the Board of Trustees of the Wood 
stock High School to become its prin 
cipal, entering upon his duties Decem 
ber istof that year. His able mana 
ment caused it to be raised in 1886 
to the status of a Collegiate Institute. 
This change necessitated the appoint- 


ment of a staff of six masters and an 
extension of the programme of studies, 
which raised the aggregate attend 
ance in 1891 to over three hundred. 
Woodstock Collegiate Institute now 
ranks among the very best of the edu 
cational institutions of Ontario. Mr. 
Hunter is a member and an elder of 
Knox Presbyterian Church, and is 
active in Sabbath School work. Ik- 
belongs to the Masonic Brotherhood, 
and during 1890 and 1891 wasD.D.G.M. 
of Wilson District No. 6 of the Grand 
Lodge of Canada. Mr. Hunter was 
married July 14, 1875, to Kunice, daugh 
ter of J. B. Kitchen, Ksq., Brantford. 


440 


MKN 01- CANADA. 


^ r . JOHN LAING, M.A., D.D., 
Dundas, Ont.,was born March 
24th, 1 828, at Tarbet Cottage, 
Ross-shire, Scotland. His education 
was commenced in Edinburgh, at How- 
ington Academy and High School, and 
completed in Knox College, Toronto. 
He afterwards took an arts course in 
King s College and the University, 
Toronto. He left Scotland in the year 
1X42 and spent one year in Ireland. 
In 1843 lie came to Canada and settled 
at Danville, ynel&gt;ec. He taught in the 
public school for a time, and afterwards 
in Toronto Academy. I le was ordained 
in June, 1854. at Searhoro, and inducted 


pastor of Knox Church. 
In 1859 he removed to 
Cobottrg, where he remained 
until 1X7 i , when he accepted 
a position as agent for the 
endowment of Knox Col 
lege. He went to ( Htawa 
in 1872 and opened the 
Ladies College there, re 
maining one year. 1111873 
he accepted a call to Dundas, 
where he has continued to 
labor with great acceptance 
since. Dr. Laing taught in 
Knox College as tutor in 
Classics, Mathematics, Eng 
lish and Hebrew. He was 
Local Superintendent of 
Public Schools in Scarboro, 
Inspector of Schools in 
Cobourg, and County Ex 
aminer in the Counties of 
York, North Northumber 
land, and Wentworth for 
twenty years. He was con 
vener of Home Missions 
from 1864 till 1871, was 
also Examiner and Chair 
man of the Board in Knox 
College for many years. 
He was Moderator of the 
Synod in 1877, an&lt; ^ f the 
General Assembly in 1890-91. He has 
been Clerk of the Presbytery of Hamil 
ton since 1875. Dr. Laing through his 
long ministry has rendered very efficient 
service to his church, while at the same 
time, by pen and voice, he has ad 
vocated what he has deemed right on 
the great public questions of the dav. 
As an all-round scholar and well n 
theologian, he occupies a high place in 
the estimation of his brethren, and 
is greatly respected by all cl 
He was married on the 26th O 
;, to ! fourth dangh; 

James A. Smith, M.A., of Knox Col 
lege, Toronto. 


CANADA. 


441 


REDERICK JOHN URE, P.L.S. 
and Civil Engineer, Woodstock, 
Out., was born on the iSth of 
September, 1863, in Essex County. 
His parents came from Scotland to 
Canada in 1840 and settled in Essex 
Connt\-. ( )ur subject received his edu 
cation at the public school, Windsor 
High School, and St. Catharines Col 
legiate Institute. He passed his pre 
liminary examination for his profession 
at the Crown Lands Department, To 
ronto, in 1883. He then articled him 
self with Mr. Baird, P.L.S., Leaming 
ton, with whom he remained two years, 
when he was transferred to Mr. Burke, 


Ingersoll, remaining with him tw&lt;/ 
years. In 1887 he passed his final ex 
amination, receiving the degree of 
P.L-S. He then entered into partner 
ship with his old tutor, Mr. Burke, 
opening an office at Woodstock. This 
partnership existed three years, when 
he bought Mr. Burke out and has since 
curried on the business alone. Mr. I" re 
in religion is a Presbyterian, is an 
associate member of the Y.M.C.A., and 
in politics is Reform, He is a young 
man of good habits, attentive and" skill 
ful in his profession. He was married 
on January Sth, 1890, to Miss Bes 
Gordon, of Woodstock. 


44- 


MBN OF* CANADA. 


JUDGE A. FINKLE, County 
Judge, Woodstock, Out., was 
born at that place in the year 
1843. He received his education at the 
Woodstock public school, and at the 
County Grammar School under George 
luchon. when he commenced his 
ional studies. He passed his 
.initiation of the Law Society when 
onlv seventeen years of age, and at 
once entered the office of D. G. Millar, 
UK- of the best known practitioners 
throughout Western Canada. IK- was 
admitted to the liar in the year 1*64, 
and commenced the practice nf his ; 
ion with I). ( .. Millar, with whom 


he was a student. He was also ad 
mitted to the Bar in Winnipeg, Man., 
in the year 1883, and practiced tl: 
for a short time. He then returned to 
Ontario, and shortly afterwards, on the 
death of Judge MacOueen, which 
curred in the year 1885, he received his 
present appointment as Judge of the 
County of Oxford, which important 
office he fills with the dignity and 
ability which belong to that high ]&lt; 
tion, a.s lie brought to the disch 
his duties a sound judgment and a well 
balanced judicial mind. Judge Pinkie- 
in religion is a member of the Church 
ol Hngland. 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


443 


kKY. HERBERT GORDON 
MILLER, M.A., Principal of 

^ Huron College, London, 
Out., was born on June loth, 1855, at 
Woodchnrch, Yorkshire, Eng. He re 
ceived his education at the Royal 
Grammar School, Lancaster, and Blun- 
dell s School, Tiverton, Devon, passing 
thence to Sidney Sussex College, Cam 
bridge, of which he was a mathema 
tical scholar. He graduated with the 
degree of B.A. in 1876. After gradu 
ating he was form master successively 
at Felsted School, Essex, and Dove r 
College. Prior to ordination, he spent 
one year at St. John s Hall, Highbury, 


London. He was ordained 
deacon at Trinity in 1879, 
and ordained priest the fol 
lowing year by the Bishop 
of Gloucester and Bristol. 
He first served the church 
at Cheltenham nnder Canon 
Bell, after which he was 
settled in several of the 
leading towns of England, 
notably Manchester, Birm 
ingham , Chester, Northamp 
ton, Eastbourne and Clif 
ton, Bristol. Mr. Miller 
was married in iSSi to Miss 
Adelaide Meara, of Chelten 
ham, England. In 1891 he 
was nominated Principal of 
Huron College, London, by 
Rev. Albert Peache, D.D., 
and the nomination being 
accepted by the College 
Council, he left England 
for Canada that } r ear to en 
ter upon his duties. Mr. 
Miller is a man of very 
varied experience, having 
labored during his minis 
terial life among all sorts 
and conditions of men. He 
is the author of a volume 
of sermons, entitled " Vic 
tory, Blessing and Song " a memorial 
volume published by request of the 
congregation of the parish church, 
Eastbourne. By his academical train 
ing, his profound knowledge of the 
Bible, and by his large practical experi 
ence, he is most admirably fitted for 
his present position, where he has the 
training of young men, who are fitting 
themselves for the grand work of win 
ning souls for Christ. Under such 
guidance, Huron College should have 
a prosperous future. Since the summer 
vacation of 1891, great improvements 
have been made in the college, and the 
professonal staff largely increased. 


444 


MI.N OF CANADA- 


- 7V-:\- GEO. LAW- 
l\ 

\^s nuatcil Methodist 
minister, Ingersoli, &lt; hit., 
was born on the iStli 

&gt;ruary, 1822, in the 
County of Limerick, Ire 
land. He came to Canada 
with his parents in the year 
1825, sixty-six years ago, 
and settled at Little York, 
which is now the city of 
Toronto. His father was a 
captain in one of Her Ma 
jesty s regiments, at that 
time on service in Ireland. 
Mr. Lawrence was educated 
at private schools, and Lima 
Seminary, New York State, 
U.S.A. His course of studies 
and the natural inclination 
of his mind led him to 
prefer religion to business 
He felt his call to the 
sacred ministry, and was re 
ceived on probation in the 
Conference of the M. E. 
Church in Canada in the 
year 1844. Before ordina 
tion he travelled the circuits 
of Canboro and Toronto. 
He was then ordained 
deacon at the Yonge Street Church 
by Bishop Alley in 1846. He was 
then sent to the Niagara Circuit, 
and in the following year was trans- 
. ferred to the Dumfries Circuit. He 
was ordained elder in the year 1848 at 
the Brooklvn Conference by Bishop 
;ith. Since that time he has served 
the following circuits: Nelson, Yonge 
eet, Newmarket, Saltfleet, Orono, 
Markham. Yonge Street a second time, 
Hrin, town, Pickering, Brooke 

and Sombra. On account of failing 
health, Mr. Lawrence was superan 
nuated in the year i.S6o., and since that 
time has sustained that relation to the 


Conference. He preaches as often as 
health will permit, and assists in the 
work of the church in all its depart 
ments. For some years after his 
superannuation he was successfully en 
gaged in the publication of religious 
books, but for many years he has lived 
a retired life. Mr. Lawrence was mar 
ried on the 26th of September. 1^50, 
to Miss Lucy Reid, daughter of Dr. 
A. 1 ; . Reid, of Richmond Hill, Out. 
He IMS two daughters one the wile 
of J. \V. Cutler, M.D., of New York, 
and the other the wife of William 
Currie, of vu, Manitoba, Regis 

trar of Beautiful Plains County. 


CANADA. 


445 


&gt;ICHARD J. C. DAWSON, Post 
master, London, Out., was born 
_s&gt; on the 3rd of October, 1835, 
at Bathnrst, N.B. His education was 
received at a Grammar School in New 
Brunswick. He came to London with 
his parents in the year 1851. In 1852 
he was appointed junior clerk in the 
London Post Office, there being only 
four employees in the office at that time. 
In 1860 he was appointed Assistant 
Postmaster until March, iS8i, when 
lie was appointed Acting Postmaster. 
In June of the same year, after a 
period of twenty-nine years of faithful 
service as a subordinate, he was ap- 


pointed to the highly responsible office 
of Postmaster, which he still holds. 
Mr. Dawson is a member of Queen s 
Avenue Methodist Church, and has 
held nearly every office in the gift of 
the Church for which laymen are 
eligible, including membership in the 
General Conference. He is a member 
of the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F. and 
A.O.U.W. Mr. Dawson is an efficient 
officer, a prominent citizen &lt;&gt;f London, 
and is much respected by the general 
public. He was married on the 3rd of 
October, 1860, to Miss Jane K. Deacon. 
His family consists of three children- 
one son and two daughters. 


446 


MKN OF CANADA. 


McKENZIE WILSON, 
Q.C., Brantford, Out., was 
^ born on April gth, 1840, at 
Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His parents 
\\\-re Stephen and Ann E. (Melvin) 
Wilson, natives of Scotland, who came 
to Canada in 1847. M f - Wilson re 
ceived his education at Hamilton Gram 
mar School, and by private tuition 
under Rev. John Alexander, Rev. Mr. 
:t, Rev. Mr. Fenn, and Rev. Mr. 
Montgomery. He afterwards studied 
la\v and was admitted to the Bar in 
1866. He was appointed O C. by the 
Dominion Government in i.s.S.v 1 It- 
has officiated as Deputy Judge of Brant 


County three times, having been first 
appointed to that office in 1872 by the 
Dominion Government. He is County 
Clerk, Solicitor for the County, and 
Solicitor for the Canadian Bank of 
Commerce. He is a member of the 
Royal Arch Masons and A .! . oc A.M., 
and has filled the offices of W. M. and 
D. D. G. M. In religion he is an I .; 
copalian, and in politi \ -iservat: 
holding office in the South Brant Con- 
servati iation. Mr. Wilson v 

married May 5th, iS; .}, to Miss Mary 
Selina, daughter of A. H. Xelles. 
IJrantford. His famil} consists of . 
son and two daugh; 


MRN 


CANADA. 


447 


GEORGE 

McKAY, barrister, 
Woodstock, Ontario, was 

born there February igth, 

1856. He attended the 

public and High schools, 

where he received his early 

educational training, and 

finished at New Glasgow 

College, Nova Scotia. He 

commenced the study of 

law with Ball, Matheson & 

Ball, Woodstock, and finish 
ed with Blake, Kerr, Boyd 

& Cassels, Toronto. He 

was admitted to the Bar in 

1 88 1, and at once began the 

practice of his profession in 
his native town. In 1882 
he entered into partnership 
with W. G. Eakins, now one 
of the editors of the Mail 
newspaper, under the firm 
name of Eakins & McKay. 
This partnership existed 
for one year. The subject 
of our sketch then entered 
into partnership with H. J. 
Finkle, under the title of 
Finkle & McKay. This 
firm continued for three 
years, when, in the year 
1886, W. T. McMullen was admitted a 
member of the firm, which became 
Finkle, McKay & McMullen. Mr. 
McKay was married on the agth of 
September, 1886, to Miss Jessie Agnes 
Campbell, of Woodstock. In June, 1891, 
he withdrew from the firm of Finkle, 
McKay oc McMullen in order to prac 
tice alone. He has been engaged in 
some important cases, in which he 
gave proofs of great ability and care 
ful study. He was one of the counsel 
for the defence in the celebrated 
Birchall trial. Our subject is a public- 
spirited citixen and holds many offices 
in the town. He is president of the 


Woodstock Electric Light Power and 
Street Railway Co., and one of the 
owners and a director of the Woodstock 
Gas Light Co. He is a member of the 
Society of Fraternal Guardians, the 
Royal Arcanum, the Independent Order 
of Foresters, and the Home Protection 
Association, being president of the 
latter society. He is a member of 
Knox Presbyterian Church in full com 
munion. In politics he is a Reformer, 
and takes an active interest in the wel 
fare of the party. His father, the late 
Alexander McKay, was chairman of 
the first Reform Convention in Western 
Ontario. 


M I.N ov CANAI . \. 


4 IOMER P. BROWN, treasurer 

Tl of ^ the County of Oxford, 

^&gt; Woodstock, Out., was born 

on the i jth of February, 1822, in Cat- 

taraugus County, New York State, 

U.S.A. His primary education was 

received in New York State, and 

continued and completed in Ontario, 

whither his parents came in the year 

15, settling at Paris. After leaving 

school he worked for a short time on a 

farm, and was then apprenticed to the 

trade of a moulder. In the year 1844 

he became partner in a foundry in the 

town of \Y k. Tliis partnership 

ted for ten when the sulr 


i-f our .sketch became 
proprietor, ;U ul for thirteen 
years carried the business 
on in his own name. In 
the year iS6; he sold the 
business out and retired. 
Mr. Brown was a member 
of the Town Council for 
about fourteen years, and 
in the year iSoi was mayor 
of the town. He was ivcvc 
of the town for a number 
of years, which position he 
resigned in the year 1869 
to accept the office of tn 
urer of the county, the 
duties of which he has con 
tinued to discharge ever 
since. In 1862 Mr. Brown 
was appointed magistrate 
by the Dominion Govern 
ment, which appointment, 
he still holds. He lias been 
a director of the Oxford 
Permanent Loan and Sav 
ings Company since its or 
ganization, and is at present 
its vice-president. He is a 
member of the Masonic 
fraternity. In religion he 
is an adherent of the Metho 
dist Church. Mr. Brown is 
a public-spirited citizen, is a man of 
more than usual business capacity and 
sound judgment, and is a very careful 
and trustworthy official, in whom the 
public have unlimited confidence. His 
marked success through life is cine to 
careful and painstaking industry, trans 
parent integrity and a strong determin 
ation to succeed in whatever he under 
took. He was united in marriage with 
Miss Jennet McDonald, of I ngersoll, on 
the 29th of January, 1846. He h;ul a 
family of six sons and six datighu 
seven of whom arc living- us 

and one daughter and ail are living 
at home except &lt; 


MEN OF- CANADA. 


449 


Vw ^ 


JOSEPH ROBINSON, Clerk of 
the First Division Court, County 
of Brant, was born in the city 
of Armagh, North of Ireland, on the 
i5th of June, 1818, and is the oldest of 
a family of nine children born to Win 
and Mary Jane (Little) Robinson. The 
parents were both natives of the North 
Ireland. Our subject, with his 
brother James, came to Upper Canada 
in 1832, landing at York (Toronto), 
where he remained four years learning 
the trade of house-painting, glazing 
and paper-hanging. After having made 
and saved a little money, he went to 
Victoria College, where he remained 


two winter sessions. He 
then went to Hamilton, and 
for twelve years engaged in 
painting, glazing, paper- 
hanging, etc., and in the 
traffic of the goods of his 
trade. In 1842 he married 
Miss Hannah Sanders, a 
native of Yorkshire, Eng., 
by whom he had three chil 
dren : Mary Ann, deceased ; 
Eliza Jane, wife of John \Y. 
Jones, barrister, Hamilton ; 
and Hannah A., deceased. 
Mrs. Robinson died in 1848. 
In 1849 he went to Cali 
fornia and continued in the 
same line of business in 
San Francisco for twenty 
years. In 1852 he married 
Miss Eliza Jane Jones, 
daughter of Stephen and 
Mary (Smith) Jones, of 
Stony Creek, by whom he 
had four children, viz. : 
Stephen James, doctor and 
graduate of McGill College ; 
Clara, Kate, wife of Albert 
B. Briggs, banker, Buffalo, 
U.S. ; and Josephine, all 
surviving. In 1869 he re 
turned to Canada, the land 
of his predilection, and settled in Brant- 
ford, where he bought the Peter Jones 
homestead, in which he resided for a 
number of years. Soon after locating 
in Brantford he received the appoint 
ment of Clerk of the Division Court, in 
which capacity lie still continues. Some 
years previous to 1891 he bought a 
desirable property on Brant Avenue in 
the city, where he now resides. Mr. 
Robinson is a man of wide information, 
strong social qualities, and during the 
twenty odd years he has held office, he 
has been highly esteemed for the kind 
and genial way in which he discharges 
his duties. 


Mi-. N OR CAN A. . , 


,_^ - 
MIoS. WOODYATT, 

* ice Magistrate 

Bruntford, Out., was bom 
there on the loth of April, 
; 5. His father, James 
Woodyatt, has been for 
many years the well-known 
ty Clerk of Brantford. 
His mother was Martha 
(Woods) Woodyatt. Mr. 
Woodyatt was educated at 
the public and Grammar 
schools of Brantford. On 
leaving school he engaged 
in the pottery business with 
his father for a short time. 
He then decided upon the 
legal profession, and com 
menced the study of law 
in Brantford with George 
Morphy, Esq.. and also 
studied in the Toronto office 
of Mr. Morphy. He began 
the practice of law in Brant 
ford in 1869, where lie has 
continued since. He was 
appointed Police Magistrate 
of Brantford on the 3ist of 
December, 1889. This ap 
pointment has given abun 
dant satisfaction, as Mr. 
Woodyatt brought to the 
discharge of the duties of his office a 
well trained legal mind and a quick 
perception of all the important points 
in the many perplexing cases coining 
before him. He is singularly apt at 
analyzing evidence, and can arrive at 
his judgments and deliver them with 
an impartiality which cannot be ques 
tioned, and being of an affable and 
Denial U-mperament, performs the func 
tions of his office in a most pleasant 
manner. Mr. Woodyatt is chairman of 
the Brantford Collegiate Institute 
Hoard, of which he has been a member 
for ten years. He is a member of the 
I.&lt; &gt;.&lt; &gt;.!.. an&lt;i 19 a l a-4 Grand, al- 


Past Grand Patriarch of this Order. 
In politics he is Reform, and from I&lt; S 74 
until his present appointment was se&gt; 
tary of the South Brant Reform A^ 
ciation. It was in connection with this 
office that his great executive ability 
was seen to best advantage. As an 
organi/er Mr. Woodyatt has no JH 
and but few equals, and while 
tary of the Reform party in South 
Brant, the party made him a flattering 
acknowledgment of his indefatigable 
labors in promotion of tlu- canst-. 1 It- 
was married August ic,tl: 
Mary, dan-];: Pred C. 

Kortuni. architect, of Hamilton. 


CANADA. 


451 


JAS. WOODY ATT, City Clerk, 
Brantford, Out, was born on 
the 20th of June, 1819, in 
London, Eng. His parents were Thos. 
and Harriet (Gnmbleton) Woodyatt. 
His father was a native of Hereford 
shire, Eng. Mr. Woodyatt received 
his education at private schools in Lon 
don, Eng., and by self-culture. I K- 
came to the State of New York with 
his father in the year 1834, and in 
1835 ca ie to Canada and settled in 
Brantford. The next twenty-four years 
were spent in business and in travelling, 
during which time he saw much of the 
world. In 1859 he received his present 


appointment of City Clerk. 
He has held this office for 
thirty-three }-ears, and is 
now looked upon as an 
authority in municipal and 
civic matters. He was a 
member of the Town Coun 
cil for 1850, 1851, 1852 and 
T S53&gt; reeve of the town in 
1853, a member of the 
Public School Board four 
years, secretary and libra 
rian of Mechanics Insti 
tute twenty-five years, and 
was influential in securing 
the change from the Insti 
tute to the Free Public 
Library, for which service 
the city owes him a debt of 
gratitude. Mr. Woodyatt 
is a member of the Congre 
gational Church, and has 
been a deacon for many 
years. He is a member of 
the I.O.F., having joined 
the Manchester Order of 
Odd Fellows in Brantford 
in 1846. In the year 1854 
he withdrew from that 
( &gt;rder, and, in connection 
with some others, obtained 
a charter to establish the 
present Gore Lodge No. 34. He 
has been an enthusiastic Odd Fellow 
all these years, and has held all the 
offices in the subordinate lodge, and 
has been Grand Secretary, Grand 
Master and Grand Patriarch", and also 
Grand Representative to the Sovereign 
Grand Lod.^e, having held the latter 
office eighteen years. Mr. Wnodyatt 
was married on the 22nd June, 1844, 
to Miss Martha, daughter of Henry 
\\Wls, of Hamilton. He has had a 
family of six two sons and four 
daughters, all of whom are living ex 
cept his son, William II., who died in 
Chicago in 1880. 


MEN 


CANADA 


JOHN II. MIU.AKD.of thelate 
firm of J. Millard & Co., cabi 
net makers, upholsters, undcr- 
tak . Newmarket, Out., was burn 

there March 4th, 1842. Ik- received 
his education at Newmarket High 
School, and afterwards learned the 
inet business with his father, Joseph 
Millard, J.P., who was the leading 
cabinet manufacturer and undertaker 
in Newmarket. In 1868 Mr. Millard 
entered into partnership with his father, 
the firm being J. Millard & Co. The 
partnership continued until 1891, when 
his father retired, leaving the entire 
business in possession of his son. The 
show rooms occupied by him 
are 42x75 feet in dimensions 
and three stories in height, 
having a beautiful frontage 
with four plate glass win 
dows, and situated on the 
main street in the centre of 
the town, and the furniture 
manufactured by him is of 
the very best quality, and 
is beautiful in design and 
finish. Mr. Millard s un 
dertaking department has a 
separate entrance from the 
street, and his reception 
rooms are elegantly fitted 
up with antique oak cabi 
nets on the sides where his 
caskets and coffins are en 
closed, also the floor is rich 
ly carpeted and the windows 
are heavily draped with raw 
silk curtains. He takes full 
charge of all the funerals 
entrusted to him in the 
most satisfactory manner, 
and is known as the leading 
funeral director, he having 
two of the most beautiful 
hearses in the county. Mr. 
Millard, like his father, is a 
native of Canada, and one 


of the most thorough-going and enter 
prising men of business in the town. 
He is exceedingly popular with all 
ranks and classes, and has been for 
thirteen years a member of the Town 
Council, a position which his father 
also held for two years at an earlier 
date. He is a member of the Methodist 
Church, and treasurer of the (Juartcrly 
Board, also belongs to the Masonic 
Brotherhood, the A.O.U.W., !.().( ).! .. 
and is vice-president of the Undcrtak&lt; 
Association of Ontario. In politics he 
is a Liberal. Mr. Millard in 1870 mar 
ried Ellen Isabel, daughter of James 
Purdy, of Markham, Out. 


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[HOMAS C. L. ARMSTRONG, 

M.A., IX. 15., barrister, Toronto, 
was born near the- village of Millbrook, 
in Durham County, Out., and received 
his early education in the public schools 
of the district, in I!ownianvillc High 
School and the Normal School, Toronto. 
Ailer teaching a fe\v years lie attended 
the High .School at \Yhitby, reading for 
entrance into the Universitv of Toronto, 
matriculating with honors in 1870. 
Alter a successful course, he graduated 
in 1875, taking the silver medal in 
modern languages, and was in the same 
year appointed assistant master in the 
Collegiate Institute in I lamilton. Dur 


ing the next six years in this school 
he won a foremost position as a teacher 
and an editor of text books. In iSSi 
he chose law and resigned his position 
as teacher, receiving as a present a 
handsome gold watch and chain. He 
then spent two years, 1882-3, i "\Vin- 
nipeg, where, besides practicing law. 
he took a prominent part in university 
and educational matters, and was edi 
torial writer (.11 leading daily papers of 
that city. Air. Armstrong is practicing 
law in Toronto, is an examiner in the 
University of Toronto, and a member 
of the United Board of Examiners for 
the province. 


MEN 


\\ 


Y - 

H. ANGER, B.A., St. Catha- 

fines, Out., son of H. C. 
Anger, Bertie, Welland County, was 
born at the latter place on the aist of 
October, 1846, being of U.E. Loyalist 
descent. He received his early educa 
tion at tlie public school of Bertie and 
High School of Thorold. After a ses- 
i at the London Commercial Col 
lege, lie served an apprenticeship of 
two years to the dry goods busin&gt; 
and then entered Albert University, 
Belleville, where he graduated I!. A. in 
iN7&lt;i, being a medalist in Mental 
Science and Political Kcuiioniy. Dur 
ing his university course lie was 


dained in the Methodist ministry, but, 
on leaving college, he chose the pro: 
sion of journalism and edited for fi\e 
years a newspaper at Niagara Falls. 
On December 27th, 1886, he married 
Harriet A., third daughter of J. S. 
Dell, Stamford, the same year having 
been appointed Principal of the St. 
Catharines C rinim rce. which 

is still under his direction. It is a 
chartered institution with a wide and 
liberal course of study, planned I 
a practical, but a refined and cultn: 
trainin business or ] nal 

])ursuits. In j)olities Mr. Anger is a 
Reformer, and in religion a Methodist. 


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CANADA. 


455 


slJEXRY GEORGE LACKXER, 
ITl M.D., Berlin, Out., was born 
on the 25th of December, 
1851, at Hawksville, County of Water- 
loo. His parents were William and 
Juliana (Diefenbacher) Luckner, who 
migrated from Germany in 1839 and 
.settled in Waterloo County, where his 
father became- a very prosperous fanner, 
devoting much attention to stock rais 
ing. He was for five years a member 
Of the Township Council, director of 
the County and Township Agricultural 
Societies, director and one of the origi 
nators of the Farmers Mutual Fire 
Insurance Co., Waterloo. 1 &gt;r. Lackner 


received his education at the 
public school of Waterloo 
and Berlin Grammar School, 
\\ here he obtained a scholar 
ship at matriculation ex 
aminations. He then taught 
school successfully in Water 
loo County from 1868 until 
1872. He subsequently at 
tended the Toronto School 
of Medicine four years. By 
passing an honorary exami 
nation in 1876, he obtained 
his license from the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons. 
The same year he carried 
off the Star Gold Medal and 
the First University Silver 
Medal. After graduating 
at the University of Toron 
to, he commenced his pro 
fession iu Berlin, where he 
has ever since grown in 
popularity as a most skilful 
physician, and has a large 
and growing practice. Dr. 
Lackner takes an active in 
terest in all matters pertain 
ing to the wel fare of the town. 
He was appointed physician 
to the House of Industry for 
\Vaterloo County in t88l, 
and Medical Health Officer for Berlin 
in 1884. He was elected mayor in 188(1, 
having a plurality of votes over both 
opponents, and was in the following- 
year elected by acclamation. In poli 
tics he is an Independent. lie is an 
adherent of the Lutheran Church. He 
is a member of the C.O.F I ( ) F 
A.O.U.W., K.O.T.M., and Royal Arca 
num, and is medical examiner for each 
of these societies. Dr. Lackner was 
married June 171!], 1880. to Miss Helen 
A., eldest daughter of John A. Mackie, 
J.I . The doctor s family consists 
two children a son. Harry M., and a 
daughter, May A.. 


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CANADA. 


&gt;C LHX. WATSON, of 
uT\ the Vulcan Fonn- 
V= ^ dry. Woodst.K-k, 
&lt; )nt., was 1)orn &lt;&gt;n the sth 
of September. iS;&lt;&gt;, at Barr- 
head, Renfrewshire, Scot 
land. His parents were 
Alexander and Margaret 
&gt; 1 la-i-rt) Watson, who came 
to Canada in 1842. The 
subject of our sketch re 
ceived his education at pri 
vate schools in his native 
country. On coining to 
Canada with his parents, he 
commenced the trade of a 
moulder in 1843 with John 
Gartshore, Dundas, remain 
ing there until 1853. He 
then went to Gait, where 
he worked at his trade 
eighteen months, when he 
returned to Dundas and be 
came foreman in the foun 
dry of Holt & Co., where 
he remained three years. 
He then went to Norwich 
and became a partner in the 
firm of Barr & Co., foun 
ders, which partnership ex 
isted seven years. In 1871 
he moved to Woodstock 
and became proprietor of the Vulcan 
Foundrv, which business he has since 
carried on with success. Mr. Watson 
was raised a Presbyterian, being an 
elder in that church for many years, 
and when but eighteen years of age 
was an ordained deacon of the Presby 
terian Church in Dundas. He is now 
a member of the Congregational bod}-, 
being one of the first deacons in Wood 
stock Congregational Church, and sup 
erintendent of the Sabbath School for 
many years. He has always been active 
in church work, and is looked up to as 
an earnest Christian man. He has 
held various public offices in the town 


of Woodstock, having been a councillor 
a number of years, and public sch&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;l 
trustee eighteen years. He also held 
the office of trustee while residing in 
Norwich. In politics he is Reform, 
and takes an active interest in his party 
and the welfare of his country, and lie 
is admired by all for his honesty and 
integrity. Mr. Watson was married 
December ^rd, iS^, to Margaret, daugh 
ter of William R t" Dundas. 
He lias five children living three 
daught 1 two sons. The eldest 
son carries on a 1. :id tinw 
business in Woodstock, and the other 
is with his father. 


OF* CANADA. 


457 


\\/ILLIAM HENRY 
V V BARTRAM, bar 
rister, Dundas street, Lon 
don, Out., was born on the 
2ist of August, 1848, at 
Cheltenham, Gloucester 
shire, Eng. He received 
his education at the public 
schools, Toronto, and the 
Grammar School, Sandwich. 
Prior to taking up the study 
of law, he was employed in 
the Essex County Registry 
Office at Sandwich, and 
afterwards in the office of 
the Deputy Clerk at the 
same place. On the 7th of 
February, 1871, he was ad 
mitted as Attorney-at-Law, 
and was called to the Bar at 
Easter Term following. He 
was also appointed a Notary 
Public in that year, and be 
gan the practice of his pro 
fession at London, which he 
still continues. In 1883 he 
was appointed a commis 
sioner for taking affidavits 
in Ontario to be used in 
Manitoba. While a stu 
dent at law and residing at 
"Windsor, Mr. Bartram was 
on active service during the Fenian 
Raid of 1866 as a member of the 
volunteer Windsor Garrison Artillery. 
He was reeve in Petersville in 1880 
and 1 88 1, in which latter year the 
name of the village was changed by 
act of the Ontario Legislature to Lon 
don West. Mr. Bartram worked hard 
ior the change of name against a very 
determined opposition, which defeated 
him in his contest for election as reeve 
in 1882, but in the \ ear 1883 he was 
again elected reeve. He has since been 
solicitor for the corporation. Mr. Bar- 
tram was Registrar of the Law Faculty 
of the Western University, and has 


held various prominent offices in secret, 
charitable and benevolent societies, to 
which he belongs. In politics he is a 
Liberal, and in religion is a member of 
the Church of England, and has been 
a la} delegate to the Synod of Huron 
for vSt. George s Church, London West. 
He is a public-spirited citizen, and takes 
an active interest in all that pertains to 
the welfare of the city and the country 
at large. Mr. Bartram was married on 
the 24th of March, 1875, to Miss Mary 
J. Barker, youngest daughter of the 
late William Barker, of London, who 
was one of the first mayors of that 
city. 


MEN 


CANADA. 


- Y jEY. MUNGO FRASER, M.A., 
K D.I)., Hamilton, Out, 

Vs&gt; was born on the nth of 
March, 1836, at Guay, Perthshire, Scot 
land. His father, Alexander Eraser, 
was a well-to-do joiner, contractor, saw 
mill owner, etc., on the Duke of Athole s 
estates at Kindallachan, mid-way be 
tween Dunkeld and Blair-A thole." Dr. 
ser received his education at the 
parish school of Guay, the Grammar 
\Vcston, Ontario, and the 
Normal School, Knox College, and the 
rniversity of Toronto. He received 
tin- degree &lt;,f 15. 1), from Knox ColK 
ronto, M.A. from Lafayette Coll&lt; 


Boston, Pa., T.S.A.. and 
D.D. from the South Western 

Presbyterian I lmci sity, 
Tcnn.. U.S.A. Hcfore coin 
ing to America lu- followed 
for a time the business of a 
joiner. After coming to 
this country, lie worked at 
the carpenter trade in the 
Tinted States for a short 
time, and in Canada, before 
entering the ministry, he 
followed the carpenter trade 
and school teaching. He 
was ordained on the n.th 
of October, iSu-, at Harrie. 
which was at that time in 
the Presbytery of Toronto. 
His first charge was Harrie, 
then Knox Church. St. 
Thomas, then Knox Church, 
Hamilton, where he con 
tinues to labor with great 
acceptance. Here he has 
built up a very large con 
gregation, and" is highly 
esteemed by all classes in 
the city. Dr. Fraser was 
married on the agth of 
October. 1867, to Miss Mary 
E., daughter of Edwin 
Hunter, yeoman, Newmar 
ket, Ontario. His family consists of 
four children one son and three daugh 
ters. His eldest daughter was for one 
year a missionary teacher at Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, U.S., for the 
Presbyterian Board, New York. He 
has been Synod Convener of Sabbath 
schools, and was also School Tin- 
for a time. He is a member of St. 
Andrew s Society, of the A.O.CAV., 
the Sons of Scotland, and was :( t one 
time a member of the I. O. ().! . ; 
held the office of chaplain in th&lt; 
various .societies. He is a Liberal, 
but abstains from taking an act: 
part in politics. 


CANADA. 


459 


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until 1853, when he was ap 
pointed County Judge. He 
was appointed Master in 
Chancery in 1875. He is 
considered one of the ablest 
and most satisfactory county 
judges in the province. 
While residing in Hamilton 
he held the position of ad 
jutant of the 3rd Gore 
Militia. Judge Jones is 
chairman of the Board of 
County Judges for Ontario. 
This Board consists of five 
members Messrs. Jones, 
Brantford ; Hughes, St. 
Thomas; Sinclair, Hamil 
ton ; McDonald, Brockville, 
and Senkler, St. Catharines. 
He is a member of the 
Methodist Church, being 
steward and trustee of Brant 
Avenue Church, Brantford, 
and has alwa}-s been active 
in the general work of the 
church. He was a delegate 
to the first General Confer 
ence, held at Toronto in 
i&lt; s 74, and each General 
Conference since. He was 
a strong advocate for the 

TAAlKq Tnv^c TT federation of the Victoria 

L J University with the Provincial Univer- 

a=rb=s?rJhs^ iS^sS^ 

LL.B., barrister, Hamilton; Col. Chas. 
S., barrister, Registrar of the Crown 
Lands Department, Toronto; Jennie, 
wife of George Kerr, of the firm of 
Kerr, Bull ec Duggan, barristers, etc., 
roronto; Major T. Harry, City Kn-n- 
neer, Brantford; Will D.", LL.B.. bar 
rister, Craiitfonl, and S. Alfred, LL.B., 
of the firm of Jones oc Arnold, bar- 


-:PHEN 


* .*. o 1 1 J &lt;&gt; 4 j . rllS 

parents were Stephen and Mary (Smith) 
Jones, descendants of U. E. Loyalists 
he Judge received his education at 
the Grammar School, Hamilton. He 
began the study of law with the late 
Judge O Reilly, of Hamilton, and sub 
sequently with S. B. Freeman, O.C of 
that city. He was called to the Bar in 
846, and commenced his profession 
with Mr. Freeman, continuing there 


risters, Toronto. 


4 6o 


AlK.N OK 


. \\cis \VAI.TKR 

MKRCIIAXT.M.A , 
Principal of tlie L 
iate Institute, London. 
&lt; &gt;nt., was born on the 2&gt;tli 
\ii\ember, 1X55, at ( )il 
ings, Out. His parents 
were Moses and Mary 
(Miller) Merchant, his 
father being a farmer in 
the County of Lambton. 
Mr. Merchant received his 
early education at the public 
school, passing thence to 
Albert College Grammar 
School, and Albert Univei- 
sity. He graduated from 
the latter institution with 
the degree of B.A. in 1878, 
and received the degree of 
M.A. in 1880. He began 
teaching in the }-ear 1876, 
his first position being as 
sistant in the Port Dover 
High School, where he re 
mained for three years. It 
was during this period that 
he qualified himself for his 
degrees. In 1880 he was 
appointed to the mathema 
tical mastership in Inger- 
soll High School. Soon 
afterwards he accepted the principal- 
ship of Port Dover High School. In 
the year iSSi he returned to Inger- 
soll High School as its principal, re 
maining for nearly five years. He then 
accepted the position of principal of 
the Collegiate Institute, Owen Sound, 
where he remained four years, when he 
received the appointment of principal 
of the- Collegiate Institute, Stratford. 
In the year 1891 he received his present 
ointment as principal of London 
Collegiate Institute. Mr. Merchant 
has had rapid promotion, and now oc 
cupies the front rank in his profession. 
He was united in marriage with M 


Jane McKay, of Ingersoll, sister of 
Dr. McKay, M.P.P. for South Oxford, 
on December 22nd, 1881. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and was an elder of that church in 
Owen Sound, and, while residing at 
Ingersoll. was a member of the Hoard 
of Management of the church th&lt; 
He is also a member of the ( 
Fellows Society. In politics he bclo: 
to the Reform part}-, but is not acr 
in political matters, although he i 
public-Spirited citi/eu. He is greatly 
interoted iii the welfare of the city in 
which he resides and the count 
jaccnt. 


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461 


J 


"OSEPH STANLEY, 

president of the 

Y.M.C.A., of Stan 
ley, Robertson & Co., dry 
goods merchants, Brantford, 
Out., was born near Belfast, 
Ireland. His parents were 
Henry and Isabella (Hig- 
gins) Stanley, of the County 
of Antrim, Ireland. His 
ancestors went to Ireland 
with King William during 
the war between that mon 
arch and King James, and 
were engaged in that war, 
and, after it was over, re 
ceived desirable estates for 
services rendered to the 
country at that time. Mr. 
Stanley was educated at the 
public schools of Belfast 
and the Model School of 
that city. After leaving 
school, he commenced the 
dry goods business with a 
celebrated Scotch house at 
Belfast, remaining there for 
about three years. He then 
came to Canada and engaged 
in the dry goods business 
as a clerk in Toronto, after 
which he removed to St. 
Catharines, engaging in the mercantile 
business there. In the year 1884 he 
removed to Brantford, where he bought 
the large stock and business plant of 
Williamson & Co. In the year 1887 
he took into partnership with him Mr. 
R. W. Robertson, since which time 
the firm name has been Stanley, 
Robertson & Co. Much of the firm s 
success is due to Mr. Stanley s com 
plete knowledge of the requirements 
of the business. Mr. Stanley is a 
member of the Church of England 
and a lay reader in connection with 
( .race Church, Brantford. He is also 
a member of the Vestry of St. Jude s 


Church, a member of Huron Anglican 
Lay Workers Association, and a mem 
ber of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew s, 
a society in connection with the Church 
of England. He has been an active 
member of the Y. M. C. A. for many 
years, and is now president of the As 
sociation at Brantford, having been 
unanimously elected to that position at 
the annual meeting of 1891, and is 
also a member of Farringdon Debating 
Society. He is a Conservative in poli 
tics, but takes no active part in poli 
tical matters. He is an earnest tem 
perance man and highly respected in 
the community. 


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\i i N oi CANAI ..\. 


W. C. MEYER, Q.C., Wing- 
ham, Out., was born at Har- 
^* purhey, Huron County, on 
May 24th, 1843, whither his parents 
had emigrated in 1833. His father 
was a native of Rostock, Mecklenburg. 
His mother was a daughter of the late 
John Thornton, British Minister at 
Hamburg. Mr. Meyer received his 
education at the public schools, Code- 
rich Grammar School, and private 
tuition by the late Rev. W. Cresswell. 
&lt; )u leaving school he studied law with 
Me SMS. Hurt on, Sadler & Bruce, 
Hamilton, and subsequently with 
Matthew Crooks Cameron, Toronto. 


In I.S6S he was railed to 
the Bar, and commenced his 
professional Seaforth. After 
practicing there about eivht 
years he took a trip to I &lt; 
mark, Germany, Sweden. 
Switzerland and I rar 
visiting his large circle of 
relatives. On his return to 
Canada he opened a law 
office in \Vingham. where, 
by his high moral character, 
sterling honor, and business 
ability, he has acquired a 
large practice. Mr. Meyer 
was married on the 3rd of 
September, 1878, to Helen 
E., eldest daughter of Hon. 
A. M. Ross, ex-Treasurer 
of Ontario. She died in 
1887, leaving three daugh 
ters. He has held many 
prominent positions in the 
county, having been coun 
cillor, deputy reeve, reeve 
Jand mayor of Wingham. 
During his mayoralty he 
was the means of securing 
to Wingham the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, and intro 
ducing the manufacture of 
salt. He resigned his posi 
tion of mayor (second term) owing to 
the sudden death of his wife, and again 
visited the land of his forefathers. 
\\ hile there he was presented, among 
other valuable presents, with a cup. at 
one time the property of Charles XII 
of Sweden. He returned after six 
months absence, and since then has 
been actively engaged in town improve 
ments. He is solicitor for the Bank 
Hamilton. Mr. Meyer was recently 
appointed a Q.C. In" religion he is aii 
Episcopalian, and in politics a staunch 
.servative. He lias always taken an 
interest in maul; . and in mili- 

tarv matti 


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CANADA. 


DGAR HERBERT 
HUGILL, photo- 
&gt; grapher, Ingersoll, 
Out., was born there on the 
1 2th September, 1859. His 
parents were John and 
Lavinnia (Baker) Hngill. 
His father being a photo 
grapher in Ingersoll for 
many years. Mr. Hngill, 
Jr., received his education 
at the public and High 
schools of his birthplace. 
He learned the business of 
a photographer witli his 
father, commencing when a 
boy, and thus attaining pro 
ficiency in the art very early 
in life. He afterwards spent 
several years in the large 
cities of the United States, 
perfecting himself in his 
calling. On returning to 
Canada, he took over the 
business so long and suc 
cessfully carried on by his 
father, who subsequently 
removed to St. Thomas. 
Mr. Hngill has a large 
patronage in Ingersoll and 
vicinity, and is turning out 
some of the finest woik 
done west of Toronto. He does all 
classes of work, from the smallest to 
life-size portraits, and keeps fully 
abreast of all inventions and improve 
ments. The large measure of success 
which he has attained in the art to 
which he has devoted himself, is owing, 
mainly, to the fact that he is a born 
artist, and to his marked natural artistic- 
ability has been added many years of 
careful industry and intelligent, pains 
taking perseverance. In other words, 
he merits his success. He is a member 
of the Methodist Church, having been 
converted in 1882, when he joined that 
denomination. He is at present a 


member of the Official Board of Kin- 
Street Church, Ingersoll, and is one 
of the representative members of the 
congregation. He has been Sabbath 
School superintendent, and takes an 
active interest in Sahbnth .School and 
other church work, and is highly re 
spected in the community. He is a 
member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows. Mr. Huuill has been 
twice married first, in the year 1883, 
to Miss Ida Robinson, who died in 
1886; and he was married again in tin- 
year 1890 to Miss Minnie Stevens, 
daughter of James Stevens, Division 
Court Clerk of the town of Ingersoll. 


MI.N 


CANADA. 


, .^~ 

[HE LATE HON. JUDGE MAC- 
QUEEN, of Woodstock, Out., 
was born at Quebec on the i2th of 
September, 1811. He was descended 
from an old and distinguished Scotch 
family. He received his education at 
Cornwall under Rev. Dr. Urquhart. 
He then commenced the study of law 
at Brockville. \Yhile pursuing his 
studies there, the Rebellion of 1837 
and 1838 broke out in Lower Canada, 
and Mr. Macqtieen was sent to Corn 
wall with a detachment of men in charge 
of arms for the Glengarry militia. 
Upon his re-turn from this service he- 
was appointed lieutenant in the troop 


cavalry commanded l&gt;v 
.plain Harvey. Ik- was 
llu-n sent to Dickinson s 
Landing to bring U p the 
headquarters of the ;,_Mid 
and S_ud regiments. This 
duty accomplished, he as 
sisted, under Sir John Col- 
borne, in raising a company 
of the Queen s Loyal 1 
derers, in which regiment 
he was gazetted captain in 
1838, and served in that 
corps at Brockville six 
months. While there, sus 
picious-looking vessels ap 
peared, apparently making 
for Prescott, and he volun 
teered as a private marine 
on board Her Majesty s 
steamer " Experiment." His 
services were accepted, and 
he was on board when she 
opened fire at Prescott on 
these vessels and upon the 
steamer " United States." 
The enemy landed at the 
Windmill, and Mr. Mac- 
queen went on shore and 
volunteered on the advance 
guard of the attacking force, 
under the command of the 
late Col. R. D. Fraser, and received the 
first fire of the enemy. This division 
compelled the surrender of the rebel 
commander, who handed his sword to 
Mr. Macqueen, a trophy of the victory, 
which is still in the possession of the 
family. Shortly after this he was called 
to the Bar, and, after a brief practi 
received the appointment of Jtul-c of 
Oxford County. Judge Macqneen v. 
greatly beloved, and his memory will 
long live in the hearts of the people. 
He was married in 1^7 to Fanny 
Maria Harriet, daughter of Jan. 
Muttlebcrry, M.D., Inspector-General 
of Army Hospitals, England. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


465 


REDERICK WM. 
J MACQUEEX, eldest 
son of the late Hon. 
Judge Macqueen, of Wood 
stock, Out., was born there 
on the 22nd of May, 1850. 
He received his education 
at Trinity School, Port 
Hope, and afterwards en 
tered Trinity College, To 
ronto. At the age of twenty- 
two, he began the study of 
law in the office of Hon. 
Edward Blake, Toronto, re 
maining there until 1876. 
Then, owing to his appoint 
ment to the clerkship of the 
First Division Court for 
Oxford County, he gave up 
his legal studies. In 1870 
he joined the Queen s Own 
Rifles, and served as a pri 
vate in Trinity College 
Company Xo. 8 three years. 
On going to Woodstock he 
joined No. 6 Company 2 and 
Battalion Oxford Rifles, and 
soon received the appoint 
ment of staff-sergeant. He 
was appointed lieutenant of 
No. i Company in 1876, 
and in 1878 obtained the 
captaincy. It is now twleve years 
since his promotion, and he ~ has 
always received special mention in the 
annual reports of the militia. He was 
for seven years secretary and treasurer 
of the Woodstock Rifle Association, 
and is a director of the Western Dis 
trict Rifle Association, London, and 
was one of the 22nd Battalion League 
team in 1891. He was one of the 
principal organizers of the Woodstock 
Amateur Athletic Association, of which 
he was president for two years, and is on 
the executive committee of the Division 
Court Clerk s Association of Ontario. 
He is a member of the A.O.U.W., of 


which he was financier two years and 
receiver four } -ears. He is also a mem 
ber of the Masonic Brotherhood. In 
politics he is Conservative, but is inde 
pendent of party, and seeks the welfare 
"I the country. In religion he is an 
Anglican. In 1883, through an acci 
dent, he lost his sight, and, beinif con 
sidered incurable, went to London,Eng., 
where an operation was successfully 
performed by the celebrated Dr. Bader, 
Ins sight being fully restored. Mr. 
Macqueen was married on the asth of 
September, 1889, to Fanny, eldest 
daughter of the late fames Guntt, a 
pioneer merchant of Woodstock. 


MEN OK C A x\ DA 


J 


"&lt;&gt;HX WHITE, ex-mayor and 
merchant, Woodstock, Out., 
was born March 4th, 1840, at 
Peebles, near Edinburgh. Scotland. 
His education was commenced at Edin 
burgh and finished at Woodstock, 
Canada, whither his parents came in 
-4. He entered the dry goods busi 
ness when very young, remaining with 
his first employer one year and a half. 
He then entered the establishment of 
his brother David, who was a dry goods 
merchant at Ingersoll at that time. 
He continued here about one year and 
a half, when in iS6o, at the early B 
of nineteen, he commenced business for 


himself at Woodstock, the 
firm being G. K J. White. 
After three years his brother 
retired from the firm, and 
the subject of our sketch 
carried on tin- business alone 
under the style of John 
White & Co. Mr. White 
commenced business with 
great energy and in a la 
way, and by strict attention 
to it has been enabled to 
keep abreast of the dry 
goods business in Wood 
stock and the West. He 
first visited the European 
markets in 1862, and has 
been a direct importer ever 
since, having crossed the 
Atlantic over fifty times. 
His marked success is the 
result of a thorough know 
ledge of his business, gained 
by long experience, close 
attention to the details of 
buying and selling, and a 
remarkable adaptation for 
meeting the public. Mr. 
White has always taken an 
active interest in all that 
pertains to the welfare of 
Woodstock. He was pr&lt; 
dent of the Board of Trade for a num 
ber of j-ears, a member of the Town 
Council for some time, and was mayor 
in 1888. He has been one of the dii 
tors of the Oxford Permanent Loan and 
Savings Company since its organ i/a- 
tion. He is a member of Knox Pr 
byterian Church, and for some years M;IS 
a trustee, and is chairman of the build 
ing committee of the new church. In 
politics he is Reform, but is a:i advoi. 
of Imperial 1-Yck-ratioii, and is a mem 
of the Imperial Federation League in 
Canada. Mr. White was married on 
the 22nd of Aii-ust, 1865, to Jane 
MacWhirtcr, of IJirkeuliead, Eng. 


MKN 


CANADA. 


467 


1 


TV LEX. DUFFETT CLEMENT, 
Ji\ ^Postmaster, Brantford, Out., 
^^ was born March 26th, 1836, 
at Hamilton, Ontario. His father was 
Joseph D. Clement, Postmaster, of 
Brantford from 1850 until 1862, 
when he resigned, and his son Alex 
ander received the appointment. He 
was educated at Brantford public schools 
and at a private school at Niagara, Out. 
He was then taken into the Post Office 
at Brantford at the early age of four 
teen, and has remained there ever since. 
He was appointed Postmaster in 1862, 
and has proved to be a competent and 
obliging official. Perhaps there are 


fewer complaints of the postal service 
of the Brantford office than of any 
office in the province doing the same 
amount of business. Mr. Clement be 
longs to no societies, but for some years 
was prominent in the fire department 
of the city, and has always been inter 
ested in all that pertains to the welfare 
of the community. In religion he is a 
Congregationalist. He was married on 
September i8th, 1871. to Miss Lydia 
Emma, daughter of John Kendall, 
Brantford. His family consists of one 
son and one daughter, the latter is at 
tending Brantford Ladies College, and 
his son, Joseph K., is in the Post Office. 


MEN 


CANADA 


i-r^^ 

[HE LATE VERY REV. LOUIS 
G. F. H. FUNCKEX, D.D., was 
born on the 5th of October, 1833, at 
Wanckum, Prussia. He was ordained 
priest at Roermond, Holland, on the 
1 5th of June, 1862. He graduated as 
Doctor of Divinity at the Roman Uni 
versity, Sapienza, on the nth of June, 
1864. He emigrated to Canada the 
same year in which he graduated, ar 
riving at St. Agatha, Out., on the ist 
&lt;.i September, 1*64. Father Funcken 
was the founder of St. Jerome s Coll. 
Berlin, an institution of learning for 
Roman Catholic youths, which was 
opened for the reception of pupils on 


the loth of September, 1866. The 
Rev. Father Spetz lias been president 
of this institution for two years, and 
was a professor for a number of years. 
Father Funcken assumed the pastorate 
of St. Mary s Church, Berlin, in 
September, 1866, where he continued 
until his return to Holland. In iSSS 
he was appointed Provincial of the 
"Congregation of the Resurrection of 
Our Lord." lie celebrated his silver 
jubilee of priesthood in i.SS;. Father 
Funcken returned to Roermond, Hol 
land, where, January 301)1 , 1890, In- 
passed away, comforted with the last 
sacraments of the Church. 


469 


iEY. FATHER THEOBALD 
SPETZ, D.D., C.R., president 
^g) of St. Jerome s College, Ber 
lin, Out., was bora on the i3thof May, 
1850, in the County of Waterloo. His 
parents were Joseph and Ann (Herres) 
Spetz. His father was a native of 
Upper Alsace, and his mother of 
Rhenish Prussia. Father Spetx, was 
educated in the public and separate 
schools of Berlin, and in iS66 entered 
St. Jerome s College as a student, re 
maining there five years, after which 
he taught one year in St. Mary s Col 
lege, Kentucky. In 1872 he went to 
Rome and joined the " Congregation of 


the Resurrection." He then entered the 
Jesuit University of the Roman Col 
lege, graduating in 1878, and the same 
vear became assistant of St. Mary s 
Church, Berlin, remaining there until 
1890. In January, iSgi, he became 
pastor of St. Louis Church, Waterloo, 
which he was instrumental in building 
in 1890, as well as a separate school in 
the same place, both of which are a 
credit to his enterprise and ability. 
Father Spet/ has been a professor in 
St. Jerome s College since 1878, and 
has been president of that institution 
for two years. He is a member of the 

C.M.B.A. 


470 


MEN 


CANADA. 


\\7lLLIAM CHARLES FITZ 
GERALD, barrister, etc., of 
London, Out., was born on the ist of 
May, 1865, in the Township of West 

souri, Middlesex County. His 
father was a farmer in the latter town 
ship, being councillor for many years 
and reeve for three years. Mr. Fitz- 

ild received his education at the 
public school and London Collegiate 
Institute, and afterwards took a special 
Classical course with James Thomp- 
M.A., London. In 1883 lie became a 
member of the- Law Society of I pper 
Canada, and commenced the study of 
his profession in the office of \\". \V. 


Fitzgerald, Q.C., London, and after 
wards studied in the office of M. 
Hoyles and Aylesworth, Toronto. 1 1, 
was admitted to the Bar at Osgood.- 
Hall in 1889, and commenced his pro 
fession in London in partnership with 
W. E. Fitzgerald under the firm name 
of Fitzgerald & Fit/herald. The firm 
now have a large, profitable and fast 
growing pi They also have an 

office at \Yatford, Out. "Mr. Fit/herald 
is_a member of the Church of England, 
of I M) I- , and Knights of Pythias. In 

politics he is a Conservative, and was two 

v Young Men s Liberal- 

Coiiservati- iation of London. 


OF CANADA. 


471 


THOMAS COFFEY, proprietor and 
*- publisher of the Catholic Record, 
London, Ont., was born on the 5th of 
October, 1843, at Castleconnell, County 
of Limerick, Ireland. His parents 
emigrated to Canada when lie was very 
young and first settled in Montreal, 
where they remained only one year, 
when they removed to London. Air. 
Coffey received his education at the 
Christian Brothers School, Montreal, 
and afterwards at London. He learned 
the trade of a printer in that city, and 
for many years held an important posi 
tion in the . Idrrrtitcr printing estab 
lishment, lie helped to bring out the 


first copy of the daily Free 
/ /ess, and some j-ears after 
wards the first cop\ of the 
daily .{dirrtiscr. In the 
year 1878 the CatJiolic A c- 
rord, a weekly religious 
paper, was established in 
London, but, after a few 
months, the promoters of 
the enterprise abandoned it. 
Mr. Coffey then bought the 
plant, and has since carried 
on that paper with very 
great success, it being now 
a widely read journal, net 
ting the publisher a hand 
some income. It is the 
recognized organ of the 
Catholic Church, and, with 
the able co-operation of the 
editor, the Rev. Father G. 
R. Northgraves, of Inger- 
soll, is the leading paper of 
that faith in the Dominion, 
having a circulation of over 
ten thousand copies. Mr. 
Coffey is admirably fitted 
for conducting the work 
which he has in hand, as 
he brings to the publishing 
of the A nnrtf the result of 
long years of experience in 
journalistic work, thoroughly under 
standing all the details, from setting 
type to writing editorials. He is a 
member of the C.M.P.A., and held the 
position of second vice-president of the 
Supreme Council for one term, and first 
vice-president for two years. In poli 
tics he belongs to the Reform party. 
He is a liberal-minded man, taking an 
interest in all matters pertaining to the 
welfare of the community in which he 
resides, and is much respected by all 
who know him. Mr. Coffey was mar 
ried on the 23rd of May, iXou. to Miss 
Margaret Hevey, of London, lie lias 
one daughter. 


472 


MEN 


CANADA.. 


-&lt;TV :V - ]) - WATK: 

JV D.D.,LL.D.,of the 

V&gt; Xorth Reformed 
Church, Newark, N J., was 
born at I larland, Caitluu 
Scotland, January 2oth, 
S. His father came to 
Canada in 1840, and in 
1843 settled in Williams 
township. Dr. Waters re- 
cd his early education 
in Scotland and at Kingston, 
Out., where his father re 
sided before settling in Wil 
liams. He continued his 
studies at Toronto Univer 
sity, taking B.A. in 1859 
and M.A. in 1860. He held 
the scholarship in Oriental 
languages and won the prize 
in that department at gradu 
ation. He studied theology 
in the Divinity Hall of 
the United Presbyterian 
Church. Before entering 
the ministry, he served in 
the Post Office Department 
for four years. He was or 
dained and inducted pastor 
of Southampton and Dumb- 
lane in 1861, remaining 
there two years, when he 

accepted a call to Port Hope. Five 
years afterwards he accepted a call to 
St. Mary s. In 1883 he became pastor 
of St. David s Church, St. John, N.B. 
While here the fire of the year 1877 
destroyed his house and church, toge 
ther with the homes of about eighty 
families connected therewith. The 
church was rebuilt without delay, a 
considerable part of the funds being 
collected by the pastor in Canada 
and the United States. In 1881 he 
was installed pastor of his present 
charge, having previously received im 
portant calls from Toronto and Ilrook- 
lyn. Since bring engaged in the min- 


istry, Dr. Waters has taken the degree 
of LIv.B. and LL.D. from Toronto 
University, and in 1882 D.D. from 
Rutger s College. When at Southamp 
ton and Port Hope, he was Superinten 
dent of Schools and in St. Mary s In 
spector. He was clerk of the Presby 
tery of Coboitrg, and afterwards of the 
Synod of Hamilton and London, and 
for many years clerk of the Home 
Mission Committee. He was also a 
member c.f the Alliance of the Re- 

formed churches at Helfast in ixx.j.and 
at London in iSSS. Dr. Waters for 
many years took an active part in mis 
sion and educational work. 


MKN 


CANADA. 


473 


V. THOS. ROBT. 
CLARKE, Otter- 
^s ville, Ontario, was 
born December ist, 1848, in 
Queen s County, Ireland. 
He is the eldest of ten chil 
dren and emigrated with his 
parents to Canada in 1855. 
His father and family settled 
in the township of Gara- 
fraxa, Wellington County, 
Out. In about ten years 
they moved to the township 
of Peel, the present family 
home. He worked on the 
farm till he was twenty-two 
years of age, when the often 
expressed desire to get a 
better education was revived. 
Being advised by Mr. Chas. 
Langford, of Arthur, he en 
tered upon a course of study. 
He received his education 
at Arthur village and Alma 
village public schools, and 
Fergus High School and 
Georgetown Academy. He 
is a self-made man, having 
had to work and study, hir 
ing with farmers during 
vacation to provide money 
to go to school. Securing 
a teacher s certificate, he taught school 
one year, when in June, 1875, he en 
tered the ministry of the Methodist 
Church on probation. He spent a few 
months under the chairman on the 
Mount Forest circuit, and the four years 
of his probation at Holstein, Lucknow 
and Brigden two years. At the Con 
ference held in London, Out., June, 
1879, he was ordained, and returned to 
the Brigden circuit for a third year. 
During this year, on October gth, he- 
was married to Miss Annie M. S. 
Shields. Since his ordination he has 
filled with great acceptability the fol 
lowing circuits : Brigden one year. Oil 


Springs three years, Plattsville three 
years, Innerkip three years, Bookton 
one year, and the united circuits of 
Bookton and Otterville, his present field 
of labor, one year. During his minis 
tration new churches were built at 
Brigden, Oil City, Inwood, Haysville 
and Innerkip. His congregations in 
creased, and the various departments 
of chinch work were also much in ad 
vance of what they had been previous 
ly. At the Conference- held at Inger- 
soil he was elected a member ol the 
Stationing Committee. He is highly 
esteemed by his brethren in the church, 
and as a pastor is greatly beloved. 


474 


CANADA 


&KTKR ERB WM. MOVER, 
M.A., editor and proprietor of 
the Daily Nnvs, Berlin, Out., 
was born October 3rd, 1836,31 Preston, 
Waterloo County. His parents were 
William and Mary (Erb) Moyer. His 
father was born in Pennsylvania in 
9, and came to Waterloo County in 
1*23, where he was a successful farmer 
and speculator. His mother was of 
Pennsylvania Dutch descent. Mr. 
Mover received his education at the 
public schools and Victoria University, 
graduating from the latter institution 
in iSh^. He taught school successfully 
at the early age of fifteen, and con- 


tinned it for smiie years. 
He afterwards attended 
Victoria College four veais. 
and spent three years a 
probationer, preaching in 
the Methodist ministry. In 
1866 he purchased the 

ll ataloo ( Itnniii l,-, which 
he conducted with sno 
for over three years, when 
he sold out for an advance 
over what he paid for it. He 
then purchased the Daily 
Times, St. Catharines, after 
wards merged into the 
News. After conducting 
this paper for a number of 
years, lie sold out, and in 
1878 started \\\e Daily .\ rws, 
Berlin, it being the first 
daily paper in the count}*. 
This paper has been a suc 
cess from its establishment, 
which is entirely due to 
the proprietor s energy and 
ability. Mr. Moyer is a 
public-spirited citixen, and 
is active in all matters per 
taining to the welfare of 
Canada. He has been the 
leading advocate in his town 
of street railways, electric 
light, water works, new factories, etc., 
and is usually successful bringing about 
all the reforms and enterprises he ad 
vocates. He was town councillor for 
some years. In religion he is a staunch 
Methodist, and in politics an active 
Conservative, but ever independent in 
the advocacy of right. He is a mem 
ber of the A.O.U.W., I.O.F., R.A. and 
C.O.C.F.. holding the oftu r o\ I .isl 
Master in all except the I .&lt;&gt;! . Mr. 
Moyer was married in iSo.S to HI; 
beth Harriet, daughter of the late Win. 
Ardagh. Toronto, who was alderman 
there some years. His family consists 
of four sous and five daughters. 


CANADA. 


475 


^&lt;7XR. WILLIAM F. 

I DICKSON, M.B., 

L. R. C. P. and S., 

Edinburgh, L. F. P. and S., 
Glasgow, practicing physi 
cian, Ingersoll, Out., was 
born August i4th, 1856, at 
Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scot 
land. His parents were 
William and Nickolus Dick- 
son, who came to Canada in 
the year 1857, bringing 
young Dickson with them, 
and settled near Ingersoll. 
Mr. William Dickson, Sen., 
was a master mechanic. Dr. 
Dickson was educated at the 
public and Grammar schools 
of Ingersoll, Collegiate In 
stitute, St. Catharines, and 
Normal School, Toronto. 
He obtained a teacher s cer 
tificate, on which he taught 
for nearly six years. While 
engaged in teaching he 
commenced the study of 
medicine under Dr. McKay, 
M.P.P., of Ingersoll. In 
the year 1880 he entered 
Trinity Medical College, 
Toronto, from which he 
graduated in 1883. He then 
began to practice in Fhnbro, Out., con 
tinuing there for three years, when he 
gave up practice for the purpose of 
going to Europe to further perfect him 
self in his profession. He first went 
to London, Eng., and studied in the 
London Hospital, graduating in Edin 
burgh in January, 1887. After visit 
ing various hospitals in England and 
Scotland, he returned to Canada and 
settled in Ingersoll, where he still re 
sides, having secured a very important 
practice. Dr. Dickson is a member of 
the craft of the A.F. c\i A.M., I.O.O.F.. 
A. O.K., C.O.O.F., the Companions of 
the Forest, and I.O.F. He is the sur 


geon for most of these societies. He is 
also coroner for the County of Oxford. 
In politics he is a Reformer, and takes 
an active interest in his party and also 
in the affairs of the community gen 
erally. He has quickly secured a fore 
most position in his profession, and 
bids fair to achieve marked distinction 
in his own province. In religion he is 
an adherent of the Presbyterian Church. 
Dr. Dickson was married on December 
iSth, 1889, to Miss Elixabeth G. Oliver, 
daughter of the late Adam Oliver, 
M.I . P., who represented the South 
Riding of Oxford for many years in 
the Provincial Parliament. 


476 


MKN OK 


WM. J. HUNTER, D.D., 
pastor of St. Janies Methodist 
^ Church, Montreal, Que., was 
born on the 26th of February, 1835, at 
Philipsburg, Qtie. He received his 
education at the public schools of 
Ontario, and obtained a second-class 
certificate when seventeen years of age, 
on which he taught school two years. 
In 1X54 he entered Victoria University, 
but in 1X56 was pressed into the minis 
try before completing his college course. 
In iS5,S he returned to college, and 
\v;is ordained in iSoo at Kingston by 
the late Rev. Dr. Stinsoii. ore 

ordination lie served the following 


charge*: Newmarket, lirad- 
ford and Dundas. Since 
that lie has served the 
church at Burlington, Clin 
ton. London, Richmond and 
Otieen Street churches. To- 
roiito. Centenary Church. 
Hamilton, the Dominion 
Church, Ottawa, Central 
Church, Toronto, and Queen 
Street Church a second time, 
\Yesley Church, Hamilton, 
St. Catharines, Carleton 
Street, Toronto, and his 
present charge. Under his 
administration the Dominion 
Church at Ottawa was erect 
ed, and lie was permitted to 
remain a fourth year a very 
unusual event in Methodism 
in order to complete the 
edifice and place its finances 
on a sure basis. He has 
filled every office eligible to 
a minister of the Methodist 
Church. He has been chair 
man of District, secretary 
and president of Conference, 
a member of every General 
Conference since the union 
of Methodism, and a mem 
ber of many important com 
mittees. Dr. Hunter has always been 
a diligent student, and in the midst of 
a busy pastorate, has pursued special 
courses of study in biology, physiology 
and kindred subjects. In 1887 he at 
tended a course of lectures in the 
American Institute of Phrenology and 
Anthropology, and took the diploma of 
that institution as valedictorian of a 
very large graduating class. Dr. 1 lunter 
is an eloquent preacher, a successful 
lecturer, and a competent administra 
tor. He is also a very warm advocate 
of temperance, and is at present pastor 
of the largest and most elegant Metho 
dist Church in the world. 


MEN OF* CANADA. 


477 


S^NOBERT REID, Collector of 
T\ Customs, London, Out., was 
- V^s- born on the ist of January, 
1822, in Paisley, Scotland. His educa 
tional advantages were limited, but, 
after a hard struggle, he gained a good 
education. In 1842 he emigrated to the 
United States, and in 1845, came to 
Canada and settled in Toronto. In 1 8X4 
he removed to London, where he estab 
lished a branch of the Toronto East 
wood Publishing business. He bought 
out the stock and carried on business 
until 1878, when he was appointed Col 
lector of Customs at London. .Mr. Reid 
married, in 1851, Ann Jane McElroy, 


a distinguished graduate of Toronto 
Normal School. His family consists 
of six sons and one daughter, two of 
whom carry on the printing and pub 
lishing business which he established. 
Mr. Reid is a Presbyterian, and in poli 
tics is Reform. In 1851 he received a 
commission as militia officer, and sub 
sequently was appointed a Justice ot 
the Peace . He was president of the St. 
Andrew s and Caledonian Societies sev 
eral years, and was trustee of the Com 
mon and High School Board eighteen 
years, and has now been for some years 
president of the Dominion Saving and 
Loan Society of London. 


M I. N . .1 ^ \ s \ I , v 


UBERT C. McBRIDE, of the 
firm of McBride & Jones, 

^ architects, surveyors and civil 
engineers, London, Ont, was born in 
that city on November 5th, 1860. His 
father was the late William McBride, 
for many years city assessor and secre 
tary of the Western Fair Association. 
He nu-t his death in the Thames dis 
aster in iSSi. Mr. McBride received 
liis education at the public school and 
Collegiate Institute in London. He 
commenced the- study of his profession 
in the office of S. Peters cc Q, Lon 
don, and afterwards studied for a time 
in the United States. He began to 


practice at London as a member of the 
firm of Peters, Jones & McBride in 
1885. This partnership continued until 
1891, when Mr. Peters withdrew, the 
firm now being McBride & Jones. Mr 
McBride has drawn the plans for some 
of the leading buildings in London, 
and the firm is receiving a constantly 
increasing patronage from oilier parts 
of the Dominion. Mr. Me Bride was 
married February loth, iSS6, to Mi^s 
K. Mntclimor, of Ottawa. Ontario. In 
religion lie is a Methodist, and in poli 
tics i-. Reform. He has been a member 
of the ( hitario Association of Archit&lt; 
since it was established in iS88. 


MKN OF- 


479 


GEO. BOYD, 
pastor of Queen s 
_ Avenue Metho 
dist Church, London, Ont., 
was born February i3th, 
1847, at Grangemouth, Stir 
lingshire, Scotland. He re 
ceived his primary educa 
tion at the public and 
Grammar schools, by pri 
vate tuition in Glasgow, 
and then finished at Mount 
Allison College, Sackville, 
N.B. When a boy Mr. 
Boyd had an ambition to 
become a practical engineer, 
and worked at that trade 
for several years. He, 
however, felt called to 
the ministry, and in the 
year, 1869, became a local 
preacher in connection with 
the John Street Wesleyan 
Church, Glasgow. He was 
brought up in the Presby 
terian faith, but, at the age 
of fourteen, was converted 
in the Methodist Church, 
and united with that deno 
mination. In the year 1872 
he went to Newfoundland, 
where he joined the Wes 
leyan Methodist Conference, and was 
ordained in 1877. He continued in 
that Conference for eighteen years, 
when, in the year 1890, he was trans 
ferred to the London Conference. While 
in the Newfoundland Conference he 
travelled the following circuits : Port- 
de-Grave, Cupids, Carbonear, Harbour 
Grace and St. John s, remaining on 
the two circuits in the latter place for 
six years. He then became pastor of 
his present charge. At the Conference 
of 1891 he was elected chairman of the 
London District. Mr. Boyd was twice 
secretary of the Newfoundland Con 
ference, and its president in 1886. He 


was one of the representatives of that 
Conference to the General Conference 
of 1882 at Hamilton, of the Union 
General Conference at Belleville in 
1885, and of the Conference at Toronto 
in 1886. He has been the representative 
of his Conference to the General Board 
of Missions on several occasions. He 
is an eloquent and earnest preacher, a 
diligent and sympathizing pastor, and 
is greatly beloved. He is also a strong 
advocate of temperance. Mr. Boyd was 
united in marriage with Miss Bartlett. 
daughter of Isaae Bartlett, of Bay 
Roberts, Newfoundland, on the 
of August, 1877. 


OP CANA i . \ 


if EXRY MATHE-WSOX, secre- 
*~1 tary-treasurer of the London 
^^ Free Press, London, Ontario, 
was born in Scotland, being reared 
mainly at Dundee. In early life he 
learned the trade of a baker and con 
fectioner, at which he served a regular 
apprenticeship. In the year 1841 he 
came to Canada, and, upon his arrival, 
was shipwrecked off the coast of New 
foundland, but reached the shore with 
out injury. He first went to Montreal, 
where he remained until the year 1842, 
when he removed to London, and con 
tinues t&lt;&gt; reside there still. Hen-, by a 
long term of years of steady and suc 


cessful business pursuits 
and upright citi/ensliip, lie- 
has built up a name and 
character without reproach. 
( &gt;n going to London he 
commenced business at his 
trade as a confectioner, 
which business lie carried 
on until the year 1856. In 
1845 l e suffered .seriouslv, 
financially, from the great 
fire which occurred in Lon 
don that year. Subsequent 
ly with a partner he engaged 
in the manufacture of steam 
engines, which he carried 
on for some time. After 
relinquishing this business, 
he became connected with 
the London Advertiser, and 
remained with that four or 
five years. In 1867 he ac 
cepted a position with the 
Free Press Printing Co., in 
1871 was taken in as a 
partner, and in 1882 was 
elected to his present posi 
tion as secretary-treasurer 
of the company. The paper 
with which he is connected 
is an exponent of the great 
Conservative principle of 
Policy. It is a recognized 
opinion, and owes much of 
its prosperity to the business qualifica 
tions of the subject of this sketch. 
Mr. Mathewson has been twice married 
first, in the year 1844, to Miss Ann 
Smith, a native of England, by whom 
he had three sons and one daughter, of 
whom only one son is now living. Ik- 
was married a second time to Mrs. 
Annie Xewcombe, whose maiden name 
was Lancaster, by whom he has one 
daughter living. Mr. Mathewson is a 
man of great energy and ability, and 
takes n g;vat interest in matters 
public welf;. 


National 
leader of 


MEN OK CANADA. 


481 


. MICHAEL J. 
BRADY, pastor 
^ of St. Mary s 
Catholic Church, Wood 
stock, Ont., was born on 
the 29th of October, 1858, 
at St. Thomas, County of 
Elgin, Ont. He received 
his primary education in 
the public and separate 
schools of that city, and 
continued it at St. Michael s 
College, Toronto, attending 
the latter institution for six 
years, and passing from 
there to the Grand Seminary, 
Montreal, where he com 
pleted his philosophical and 
theological education, re 
maining there four years. 
He was ordained priest in 
the year 1882 by Arch 
bishop Walsh in the chapel 
of the Convent of the 
Sacred Heart, London, Ont. 
Immediately after ordina 
tion he was appointed to 
the mission of Mount 
Carniel, as assistant to the 
late Father Kelly, and acted 
in that capacity for a short 
time, when he was appointed 
to Stratford, as assistant to Dr. Kilroy. 
In a short period of time he was trans 
lated to Woodstock as laureate to the 
late Rev. Father Carlin, and at his 
death, which occurred in the year 1885, 
the subject of our sketch was appointed 
to succeed him as parish priest, which 
charge he has filled with great accept 
ability since. Father Brady has been 
very successful in the material as well 
as the spiritual upbuilding of tin- 
church, having built a handsome new 
edifice in Woodstock in 1886, to take 
the place of the first church, which was 
dedicated by Archbishop Walsh when 
he was Bishop of London. He also 


built a church at Princeton, Ont., which 
was dedicated in the year 1889. Tin- 
entire expense of the latter beautiful 
structure, amounting to about $9,000, 
was donated by Miss Elizabeth Mark- 
ham, who now resides in Bridgeport, 
Conn., U.S.A. Father Brady is /ealous 
in the performance of his duties to his 
church. lie is a kind and sympa 
thizing pastor, and is genial and popu 
lar among all classes of people, irre 
spective of party or creed. He has 
taken a leading position very early in 
life, and appears to be destined to wear 
tin- highest honors in the gift of the 
Church. 


3" 


MEN 


CANADA. 


\ XGUS McKAY, M.B., M.P.P., 
i~\ Ingersoll, Out., was born on 
^^ the and of October, 1852, in 
Oxford township, Oxford County. His 
father was the late Donald McKay, 
farmer in North Oxford, and a native 
&lt;&gt;f Sutherlandshire, Scotland, who died 
in iSS;. His mother is still living and 
:des with her son, the doctor. Dr. 
McKay was educated at the public 
schools of the township and Trinity 
College, graduating M.B. in 1872. He 
then went to Edinburgh and graduated 
L. R.C.I . ec L.M. m 1874 at tin- Royal 
^"- :ans there. He spent 

some time at Sir M, : -r.-ll McKen/- 


Throat Hospital and St. 
Thomas Hospital, London. 
Hug., and was also a student 
at Broiupton Hospital for 
Diseases of the Chest. IK 
then returned to Can 
and commenced his pn&gt; 
sion at Ingersoll, where he 
has remained ever since in 
the enjoyment of one of the 
largest medical practices in 
that part of the country. 
He was examiner of Materia 
Medica for the Ontario Col 
lege of Physicians and Sur 
geons in 1887 and 1888. 
Dr. KcKay has always been 
an ardent Liberal in politics. 
In 1886 he was nominated 
by the South Oxford Reform 
Convention for membership 
in the Ontario Legislature, 
and was elected M.P.P. on 
the 2.Sth of December, 
1886, Dr. Williams, on the 
Conservative ticket, and 
George A. Cook, the late 
member, as an Independent 
Liberal, also opposing him. 
He was re-elected in June, 
1 890, at the Ontario General 
Election, Richard Butler, 
an Equal Righter, being the other can 
didate. The doctor is a Presbyterian 
in religion, has been a member of tin 
Board of Management, and is now a 
member of the Building Committee ..I" 
St. Paul s Church, Ingersoll. Dr. 
McKay is the Ministerial whip, a mem 
ber of the Private Bills. .Municipal and 
Railway Committees of the House, and 
was the author of the bill regarding 
fire escapes in public buildings which 
passed in j.SSS. He had charge of the 
bill to amend the Ontario Medical Act 
in iSgi, and also caused several amend 
ments to be marie to the Ontario Muni 
cipal Act. 


483 


JONES PARKE. Q.C.. of the 
firm of Parke, Mills & Ptmlom, 
barristers, etc., London, Out., 
was born at Toronto on the ist of 
November, 1823. He is the eldest son 
of the late Thomas Parke, \vh&lt;&gt; repre 
sented the County of Middlesex in the 
t\vo last parliaments of Upper Canada, 
and in the first parliament of the Domi 
nion. The subject of our sketch was 
educated at the London District Gram 
mar School, and studied law in the 
office of Sir John A. Maedonald and 
.Sir Alexander Campbell in Kingston, 
Out., and was called to the liar in 
He began to practice at \\Ood- 


I.S.J7- 


stock in partnership with the late 
Thomas Scatcherd, O.C., M.P. In the 
year 1X5:2 Mr. Parke returned to Lon 
don, where he has since remained. He 
was influential in obtaining the charter 
for the London and Port Stanley Rail 
way, of which he is solicitor. He is 
Police Magistrate for the city of Lon 
don, vice-president of the Law Associa 
tion of Middlesex County, was created 
O.C. in iSSs, and has been Deputy 
Judge oil different occasions. In poli 
tics he is a Liberal. Mr. Parke was 
married on February 4th, 1X69, to 
Miss Mary Helen, daughter of (ieor&lt;^e 
Soulhwick, M.I)., St. Thomas. 


MEN OK v. A.NAI i A. 


&gt;EY. FATHER MICHAEL 
CUMMINS, Bothwell, Out, 

sou of Win. Cummins, was 

born in the year 1850 at Kingston, 
Out. He received his earl} educational 
training at St. Michael s College, To 
ronto, and his theological training in 
Montreal College, where he studied 
three years. He was ordained to the 
priesthood in the year 1878 by Arch 
bishop Walsh. His first appointment 
was to Irishtown, where he labored for 
fifteen months. He was then appointi -d 
to Corunna, where he remained nine 
months. He then became pastor of St. 
Mary s Church. London, remaining 


there a year and a half. He was then 
appointed parish priest of Woodslee, 
where he labored with great accept 
ance for five years. The Bishop then 
formed a new parish at Bismarck, and 
the subject of our sketch was appointed 
first pastor, remaining there nine 
months. He was then appointed to 
the Mission of Raleigh, where la- 
labored for over two years, when la- 
was removed to Tliamesville, Wards- 
ville and I othwell, his present clia: 
Hi-re he is held in high esteem by all 
classes in the community irrespective 
of creed or party. In politics he i 
Conservative. 


OF* CANADA. 


485 


(* 
r EORGH ROBINSON VAN 
NORMAN, Q.C., Brantford, 
Unt., was born on the I2th of March, 
1821, at Canandagua, N.Y., coming to 
Canada the same year. He was edu 
cated at London District School and 
Victoria University, and studied lau- 
under the late Hon. Robert Baldwin 
Sulliven, Toronto. He was called to 
the Bar of Ontario in 1847, ;t &lt;l soon 
afterwards formed a partnership with 
I &gt; -. McMichael, O.C., ,,f Toronto, nnder 
tfcenameoJ Van Norman& McMichael. 
Mas partnership expiring, lu- and the 
late Hon. Michael Hamilton Foley en 
tered nito partnership at Simcoe under 


the name of Van Norman 
cc Foley. He removed t&gt; 
Brantford in 1858 and was 
appointed County Crown 
Attorney the following year. 
He became ex-officio Clerk 
of the Peace on the death 
of the late John Cameron, 
both of which offices he has 
rilled to the present time. 
He was appointed a O.C. 
by the Dominion Govern 
ment in 1873, and by the 
Ontario Government in 
1876. Mr. Van Norman 
has held retainers as coun 
sel in very many important 
suits in the Ontario Courts. 
Clear and logical in argu 
ment, felicitous in expres 
sion, calm and persuasive, 
though forcible, he readily 
secures the attention of the 
Bench, which invariably 
gives to his reasoning the 
respect and weight which, 
are due to the "efforts of 
superior counsel. Perhaps 
the most important case, 
from a litigious point of 
yiew, in which he has been 
engaged, was that of Peart 
vs. the Grand Trunk Railway Co., in 
which, at the Assizes, at the Divisional 
Court, at the Court of Appeal for 
Ontario, and before the Ultimate Court 
of Appeal in Hug-hind, he secured a 
victory for the plaintiff against a large 
and wealthy corporation, who were the 
defendants. It may be added that IR 
IS the first and only counsel as yet from 
Brantford who has had the honor of 
holding a brief before the Privy Council. 
He has been twice married first to 
Miss M. A. Berry, Toronto, : ,ml again, 
December, 1886, to Miss A. E. Duncan, 
Stratford. Mr. Van Norman is a com 
municant of the Anglican Church. 


MKN 


CANADA 


4 jKY. THOMAS 
]V JOHNSON, First 

V- Haptist Church, 
I .rantford. Out., was Ix.rn 
on the ist uf I Kvember, 
: i . near Paris, Brant 
County. His parents were 
John "and Klk-n i Pike I 
Johnson. His father was 
fur many years a faniK-r in 
I .rant County, also a magis 
trate. Mr. Juhnsoii was 
educated at the public 
schools, Paris High School, 
and \Voodst(K-k College, 
where he studied theology. 
Ik- graduated in 1873 and 
accepted a call to Petrolia, 
being inducted and ordained 
there the same year. In 
October, 1874, Mr. Johnson 
was married to Adelia, 
daughter of James McCon- 
nell, of Malahide township, 
Count}- of Elgin. He was 
the first pastor of Petrolia, 
and at the end of two years 
had built a new church and 
left the cause well establish 
ed. He then accepted a call 
to Sarnia, which was also a 
mission church when he 
took charge, but it soon grew under his 
administration to be self-sustaining, 
and a very fine new building was erect 
ed. He remained in Sarnia eight years, 
then accepted a call to Adelaide Street 
Church, London, where similar results 
attended his labors, a small church 
being displaced by a fine new structure 
and tlu- membership more than doubled. 
In 1890, after a pastorate of six years 
at London, he aceepted a call to the 
First Haptist Church, 15 rant ford, where 
he continues to labor with very great 
success. Since his pastorate there the 
membership of the church has greatly 
increased, upwards of o-.:e hundred 


having joined, more than one-half of 
this number being taken in by baptism. 
Mr. Johnson is a remarkably clear and 
practical Gospel preacher, and appeals 
to the hearts and consciences of his 
hearers. This church was founded in 
1833, Rev ^Vin. Rees being the first 
pastor, who was followed by Re\ . John 
Winterbutham, Rev. T. L. Davidson, 
D.D., Rev. Thos. Cull (student), Rev. 
lohu Alexander, Rev. \Vm. Stewart, 
D.D.. Rev. Charles Carrol, Rev. I. C. 
Hurd, M.D.. Re\. \Y. H. Porter, Rev. 
William I .rookman, Rev. f. I .. Tuttlc, 

: G. M. W. Cary. nc.u 

&lt; Utawa. 


OF* CANADA. 


HERMAN BALL, Mer- 
ritton, Out., was born there in 
1817. He received his educa 
tion at the old Grantham Academy, 
and spent his early life on the farm. 
In those days the educational facilities 
were exceedingly limited, and very in 
ferior to those of 1891, but our subject 
received the best education then pos 
sible, and applied it \vith such industry 
to practical life, that he soon became a 
man of power and influence in the com 
munity. For seven years he has occu 
pied the responsible "position of Police 
Magistrate. In discharging the duties 
of his office he brings to bear a clear 
apprehension of the matter in hand, a 
calm well balanced mind, and an im 
partial administration of Justice. In 
the delivery of his judgments there is 
no nervous apprehension of the possi 
bility of having arrived at conclusions 
which lack for a basis, the fullest con 
sideration. He still lives upon the old 
homestead in the village of Merritton, 
where he employs his time, when 
at home, in cultivating a most beauti 
ful garden of the rarest flowers and 
choicest fruits. In this delightful em 
ployment Mr. Ball finds ample oppor 
tunity for the gratification of his love 


of gathering from the storehouse of 
nature many interesting truths hidden 
in botany and horticulture. He revels 
in thus obtaining more of the secret 
of mother earth than is exhibited in 
the fruit and flowers. He possesses a 
well selected library, which he not only 
makes good use of himself, but is gen 
erously placed at the disposal of his 
neighbors for consultation. This kind 
ly act arises from the remembrance of 
those early days in which he so fully 
appreciated the rare opportunity of 
having access to good reading. " Mr. 
BalHs a devoted member of the Church 
of England and an Orangeman since 
IlS 43- He is one of the oldest residents 
of this old-settled part of Canada, and 
enjoys the confidence and esteem of 
the entire neighborhood irrespective of 
religions or political creed. His Ion- 
life ha.s been marked by patient in 
dustry, perseverance, and a strict in 
tegrity in all his relations with his 
fellow men. He was married in the 
year 1X39 to Miss lane Gertrude Ball 
third daughter of J, C. Ball, J. P., o f 
Niagara township. Of his family of 
two sons and one daughter, the daugh 
ter only remains alive, both sons beinij- 
dead. 


r EORGE THOMSON, merchant 
tailor, No. 392 Yonge street, 
Toronto, Out., was born on the loth 
of April, 1860, at Banchory, Kincar- 
dineshire, Scotland. His parents were 
William and Barbara (Gray) Thomson. 
His father conducted a merchant tailor s 
business at Banchory, Scotland, for 
over thirty years, and is still living 
there. Mr. Thomson received his edu 
cation at the schools of his native 
parish in Scotland. lie was appren 
ticed to the tailoring business at the 
age of fifteen. On completing his ap 
prenticeship, he came to Canada in 
the year 1881, and settled in the citv 


oi Toronto. In the year 1885 he 
commenced business for himself as 
a merchant tailor in that city, and 
is now in the enjoyment of a very 
large and profitable "trade. He is an 
industrious and energetic man, and 
has earned for himself a good reputa 
tion and business standing since he 
came to Canada. Mr. Thomson in re 
ligion is a member of the Methodist 
Church. He is also a member of the 
Caledonian Society, the Sons of Scot 
land and the Young Men s Protestant 
Benevolent Association, in which socie 
ties lie has always taken a very deep 
interest 


\IKN OF- CANADA. 


Jf DIMSoN NORMAN. M.I-:., was 
2~"\ born in Yorkshire, Hug., in 
^- : v :&gt;. His father, a cabinet 
maker by trade, de\ ..ted a lar^e portion 
of liis spare time to the study and ap 
plication of static electricity for cura 
tive and other purposes, and in this 
way the subject ot our sketch became 
acquainted with the u-es of electricity 
at a very early age. In 1X63 he came 
to this country, and after travelling 
r a portion of Canada and the 
United States, staying in various cities 
acquiring information and experience 
in the ways of the people, finally settled 
in Toronto. For nearly twenty years 
he has been engaged in the manufac 
ture of electro curative, appliances. At 

first he commenced to manufacture in 
soles for rheumatism in the lower limbs 
and for cold feet. Finding them a suc- 

5, he extended the idea to other forms, 

;hat the electric healing power might 
be applied to other parts. This he 
found of very great service in the relief 
and cure of all kinds of bodily ailments, 
particularly those of the nervous sys 
tem, such as debility, lumbago, indi- 

tion, sciatica, exhaustion, catarrh, 
-cxual weakness, etc. These and kin 
dred diseases that will not yield to the 
influence of medicine he found to He 

!y curable by the outward applica 
tion of a stead}- flow of mild galvanism 
and magnetism. As time went on he 
improved on the original principle and 
wrought many wonderful cures, as his 
many testimonials irom prominent men 
abundantly show. About ten years 

. he brought out his Acme Klectric 
Belt, which combines galvanism and 
magnetism in one appliance, and may 
be used to carry the current through 
or around any part of the body. Tl: 
U no other belt in existence that pro- 
duc real a quantity of combined 

tricity, and it is eMu-dally adapted 
for affections of the kidneys, bladder 


and scrotem. This appliance requ; 
to be moistened with vinegar and w: 
when used. This dampening railroad 
men and travellers found to be v 
inconvenient, and Mr. Norman set to 
work to devise an application that would 
give off as much curative electricity 
when used in dry form. This he at 
length succeeded in doing, and the re 
sult was the introduction of his Kxcel- 
sior Klectric Ik-It, which excels all other 
electric body wear in the quality and 
quantity of electro galvanism it give^ 
oft, and, besides this, a i;reat volume of 
magnetism is discharged from it con 
tinuously. The user is in no way in 
commoded, and there is no loss of time 
required in the application of electricity 
in this form. The difference between 
electricity applied in this way and elec 
tricity used from a battery is, to use an 
illustration, the difference between food 
and a stimulant. The intense current 
got from a Galvano-Faradic Battery acts 
as a stimulant to the nerves and circu 
lation, but the pure galvanic or magne 
tic current given off from the belts feed 
the blood and nerves with vitality, that 
is vital force. Electricity and vital 
force are the same thing, only slightly 
changed in form, just as light, heat and 
galvanism are only different form- 
electricity. It is manifestly better to 
feed and nourish the system than it is 
to stimulate it, and particularly so when 
we are sick or weak. His establishment 
is fitted with various kinds of baths, such 
as electric, sulphur, vapor, mercurial and 
herbal baths, and applies the cura! 
properties ot electricity in all its forms, 
both wet and dry, as suits the ( 
he is treating, and all his patients feel 
themselves to In- in the hands of a man 
who knows his business Mr. Norman 
claims to be the leading medical e 
trician of this continent He was mar- 
: in iSoS to the daughter of Mr 
:, builder, of Toronto. 


INDEX. 


Acheson, George, M.A., M.B., Toronto. 

Adams, W. Case, L.D.S., Toronto. . 

A. lams, John F., L.D S., D.D.S., Toronto. 

Alexander, Thos., Collector Inland Revenue, London.. . 

Anderson, Rev. Jas. A., B.A., Presbyterian, Goderich.. 

Anger, Rev. W. H., B.A., Educator, St. Catharines.. 

Armstrong, T. C. L., M.A., LL B., Barrister, Toronto. 

Atkinson, Rev. A. F, D.C.L, Anglican, Toronto.. 

Atkinson, W. P., M.A., Barrister, Toronto. . 

Atherton, Alfred B., B.A., M.D., L. R. C. P. & S., Toronto. 

Austin, Rev .B. F., M.A., B.D, Prin. Ladies College, St. Thomas 

Austin, James, Bank President, Toronto. . 

Avison, Oliver R., M.D., C.M., M. C. P. A S. O., Toronto. 

Aylward, Rev. R., B.A., Congregational, London 

Baird, Andrew 11., Manufacturer, Paris. . 
Baldwin, Right Rev., M. S., D.D., Bishop, London. 
Baldwin, Morgan, Harbor Master, Toronto . 
Ballaiitynp, I lev. .las., B.A., Presbyterian, London 
Ball, F. R., &lt;}.( ., County Crown Attorney, Woodstock- 
Ball, Geo. L, Dentist, Toronto 

Hall, P. II , Magistrate, Merritton. 

Barron, Robt. A., Principal High School, Georgetown. 

Bartram, W. H., Barrister, London. . 

Barton, Geo. Munns, Barrister, Hamilton. . 

Bartley, Rev. Thomas Edwin, Methodist, Davisville 

Rattle, John, Deceased, Thorold 

Battle, John, Residence, Thorold 

Beaton, A. H., M.D., Orillia 

Beaty, Jas. Q. C., D.C.L., Barrister, Toronto 
Beatty, Matthew, Manufacturer, Welland 

Benson, Rev. M., Methodist, Toronto 

B.-rgin, Very Rev. Wm. Dean, Barrie 

B.-thune, Norman, M.D., M.K.C.S., F.R.O.S., Toronto.. 
Beaumont, E. J., Barrister, Gait. . 

Bickle, John W., Broker, Hamilton 

( 1*9) 


IM.KA 

Toronto 
liin-hniM. &lt;:,-., rp- A.. .M.D., Ml;. Toronto 

hard, isaa,- .1 . M A . l-h. |... M:,th. Muter, BrutfeH 

II \V,&gt;,,1 M.-nh:uit. Hamilton. 
in, Hutfti. \\ holesal.- Mi-reliant, Toronto 
Edward, Q.C3L, Toronto 

i hotographer, Newmark.-t 
Man but) Hu.-lph. 
M.-thodist. Ixjndon. 

- ll irry. I: \ . I m,. IJM! II, yl, - ini^.y 

I Kdwin. ( lii-inist. Mniiiilton. 
Boyd. .loli n A , Chancellor of Ont, T 

\li-tln.(list, l/iinlon , 

Hradv. l;. . \l .1 . C:th,,li,.. \Voo&lt;lKto&lt;-k 
; . I. -I . M.-mufju-turcr, li.-rlin. 
Mri ii.n.-r. M C. K.litor, Ix&gt;ndon 

I 1 .L. I .irisl, I ri.-M. St M; lr y- 

U illoujjlit.y Staples, B.A., Barrister, Brand ~ ^ 

Rnggs, R-v. Wm. D.D., M.-th. lirM.k Sti-w ; ,rd. Toronto... 
Brown, Ui,-li;in|. M;innf.i. turer, Toronto 
Brown, H..I,,,.,- P., c,,,inty Tn-.-isun-r. Woodstock. 
Mrui-f, Win, Artist, Hamilton 

... ... 

Buchart, li-or- M . M.-rchant, Owen Sound.. 
Buchanan, .James, Planing Mills, ( ;,!. ri,-h. 
Buck, Win, Manufacturer. Brantford . 
Huckingham, Win . (.Vnt li-in.-ui, Stratford. 
Burd.-tr. Rav. 0., .Mi-thmlist. Itideetown . 

\ I I 

Burns K.-. A . M A |. l&gt; I.I. |&gt; . Ifatbodnt, Hai.iilton. 
l: " oraato 

M. WMITI-II. M;unif;i ..|p|i. 

irk. Hie-hard, Solicitor, Toronto. 
( al i too, M.-n-liaiif, Toronto 

a 1 Win. Mi-tli.,di.st. 1 ari- 

Cameron, John. K.lit.., ; U ,,i Pul/lislinr, Ijondon. ,,&lt; 

ii I linran, Ivlucationist. H.-innlum 
i M I .py. Prov. Treasurer, Toroi.-o 
lii-v. .loin, M.-hitosli. ! i..sliyt-riiin. Toronto . .,,., 

: . G I Brok 8( &lt; 

I.1..-1I. .John, M.li. r M 
:i|.l--ll, Kdwin Thomas, l).-ntist. Toronto . 
j.MI, Hi-v. .John, MA. I h.li. &lt;od 

I.IH-H. W. S.. Counts T. llnntford . 

t, Contractor, Toronto 
L.DD - lp&lt; M.-tl, Clmr. li, B..ll-xill... 


INDEX. 


Carpmael, Chas., M.A., F.R.S.C., Magnetic Obs ty , Toronto . 164 

Cassidy, Rev. Edward, Dean of Toronto, Toronto 

Chapman, Jesse, Undertaker, Hamilton 

Chambers, John, Supt. Public Parks, Toronto 

Charlton, W. J., M.D., Weston 

Chase, Rev. H. P., Missionary, Sainia 

Chesnutt, Rev. E. B., Presbyterian, St. Cathaiiws 

Chittenden, John Fred., Dentist, Hamilton. 

Clarke, Rev. T. R., Methodist, Otterville 

Clarke, Rev. W. F., Congregational, Guelph 

Cleghorn, Allen, Gentleman, Brantforcl 

Clement, A. D., Post Master, Brantford 467 

Coatsworth, Jr., Emerson, M.P., LL.B,, Barrister, Toronto. . 

Cochrane, Rev. Wm., D.D., Presbyterian, Brantford 

Cockshutt, W. F., Merchant, Brantford 

Coffey, Thos., Publisher, London 

Cohoe, Rev. B. L., Methodist, Freelton 

Colling, Rev. Thomas, B. A., Methodist, Plattsville 

Collins, Rev. J. H., Methodist, Merritton 

Cooley, Rev. John W., Methodist, Brantford 

Cooper, Frank, Photographer, London 

Corbett, Rev. A., Anglican, Paisley 

Corbin, W. W. V., Manufacturer, St. Catharines 

Cosby, Alfred M., Manager L.O.I.C., Toronto 155 

Cosens, Rev. Chas. W., Methodist, Caledonia 

Cowan, Wm. B., M D., Guelph 

Cox, Peter H., Mayor, Paris 

Creelman, William, B.A., LL.B., Barrister, Toronto. 

Crinion, Rev. J. E., Catholic, Dunnville 

Crinnon, Right Rev. P. F., D.D., Bishop, Hamilton . 

Croly, John E., High School Master, Dunnville 

Crossley, Rev. H. T., Evangelist, St. Thomas 
Cruikshank, A. Scott, Principal, Hamilton . 

Cumberland, Fred B., M.A., Toronto 

Cummins, Rev. M., Catholic, Bothwell . . 

Dame, Alex. A., M.D., C.M., Toronto . 

Daniels, Jacob, Saddler, Brantford 

Davison, John L, B.A., M.D., C.M , M.R.C.S., Toronto. . 
Dawson, R. J. C., Postmaster, London. . . 

Dewson, Jas. Thomas, Banker, Bradford 

Uenison, Arthur R., Architect, Toronto. 

Denton, Frank, Barrister, Toronto 

Dewart, Rev. E. H., D.D., Editor Christian Guardian, Toronto. . 
Dickson, W. F., M.D., Ingersoll 


I N 1 


I R-ks,,.,, ObartM 1C , M I ) . c M . Terooto .......... 

I --11.1111111, lVt-r, Artist, Stratford. 

Dobson, i i , I! .|i, M.thodist, Toront&lt;. 

Douglas, &lt;;. .. II ! Toronto 

Douglas, M., Mayor, Woodstock . . 

howling KightRev. T. J., Bishop, Hamilton 

Drayton, Philip Henry, Barrister, Toronto... 

Hrunimond, Geo., Banker, Goderk-h 

Dunlop, James, Flour and Grain Merchant, Hamilton 

l ;-i""i.&lt;i, A. II , Principal, Institution for the Blind, P&gt;riintfoi&lt;l 

Echlin, It. P., M A . Barrister, Toronto ............ 

Erker, Rev. D , Methodist, Tapleytown ............. 

Edy, \\ "in. !., Photographer, London .................. 

Elliott, John H., Banker, Chesley ............... 

Elliott, John, Contractor, Toronto ................. 

Kllis, Jonathan, Manufacturer, Port Dover ......... 

Ellis, Philip Wm.. Wholesale Jeweller, Toronto ........... 

-h, Kev. E. N., M.A., Principal of College, London . 
.ng Lewis, Geo. M., Barrister, Toronto ...... 

s, Rev. E., D.D., Methodist, London 


Farthing, Rev. John ( ., M.A., Anglican, Woodstock. 
Fawcett, Thos. D., L.D.S., London.. 

" I &gt; _ 

nell, Rev. Joseph, Anglican, Georgetown 
F.-therstonhaugh, Fred. K, Barrister, etc., Toronto ..... 

Fitton, c. H., I..D.S. ,v i, !)&gt;., BUDOM, ...... .,), , 

j.-rakl, W. ( ., Barrister, London.. 
Finkle, A., Judge, Woodstock ...... 

:i, Kev. C, Methodist, Toronto.. 

1 1 IN 

Forbes, A. F., Broker, Hamilton.. 
Forst. r. K A, Barrister, Toronto ...... 

Foy, James J., y ( ., Toronto ..... I . ., 

Foote, Rev. J. (. . Methodist, Cainsville 

Fraser, Rev. Mungo, M.A., B.D., D.D., Pregl.ytcrian, Hamilton 
user, Donald 1! ., M.D., Stratford ............... 

Funcken, Very Rev. L. &lt;; F. II., |i.| xleceased), ..... 

Fyf. . K. -.. It. A., D.D., Baptist (deceased). . 

niith. Bar. \\,M, MA. I.I.I: pi, |,, M,thodist, Toronto 
-M -r, I -iness College, Hamilton 

Gait, John, Civil Engineer, Toronto. 
(.alt, Mr Thomas, Chief Justice, Toronto 

..uack, Rev. Jas., M.A., LL.O., East Toronto. ,., r 

Oarrow, Jas. T, y.C.. M.P.P., God, ri, I, 

rtshore, Alex., (iartshore Foundry, Hamilton 


INDEX. 493 


Carvin, John W., B.A., Principal Public School, Woodstock 412 

Gearing, Thomas V., Contractor, Toronto 50 

Gee, John J., M.D., C.M., Toronto .&gt;7 I 

Gee, Hiram, Farmer, Fisherville 62 

Gee, Rev. A. L ., Ph. B , Methodist, Jersey ville _&gt;! 

Geikie, Walter B., M.D., C.M., D.C.L., F.R.C.S., Toronto 97 

Gerrie, Rev. John P., B.A., Congregational, Stratford 239 

Gibbons, Robert, Sheriff, Goderich 308 

Gibson, Rev. Jesse, Baptist, St. Catharines 272 

Gillard, Thomas B., Banker, Wallaceburg 305 

Gillies, Thomas L., Gentleman, Port Dover 223 

Godard, Philip G , Cabinet Maker, Toronto .- 113 

Goddard, John C., Contractor, Toronto 104 

Gordon, Rev. Jas., M.A., Presbyterian, London 405 

Gordon, J. F., L.D.S., Harriston 270 

Gowan, Hon. J. R., LL.D., Q.C., Senator, Barrie _ ;$ 1 

Grahame, Rev. Wm E., Anglican, Oakville 21* 

Grant, Capt. William, Merchant, Brantford 121 

Grant, Rev. R. N., Presbyterian, Orillia 192 

Gray, Wm. McDonald, Manufacturer, Seaforth 370 

Greene, Rev. R. W. E., L.T., Anglican, Orillia 27S 

Greer, Albert E. K., B.A., Barrister, Toronto 1 IS 

Griffith, Wm., Merchant, Hamilton 127 

Gulledge, E. H., Merchant, Oakville 372 

Gundy, Rev. J. R., Methodist, Sarnia 3SG 

Hagarty, Hon. John H., Chief Justice, Toronto 15 

Hague, John, Author, Toronto 49 

Halliday, D. McNabb, Postmaster, Chesley 175 

Hamlin, R. W., Manufacturer, St Catharines Ill 

Hammill, Thos. J., Mill Owner, Barrie 1*1 

Hardy, Hon. A. S., Q C., M.P.P., Com. Crown Lands, Brantford 193 

Harris, A. H., L.D.S., Toronto 2K4 

1 1 arris, Alanson, Manufacturer, Brantford 25 I 

Han-is, Very Rev. W. R., B.D., Dean, St. Catharines 307 

Harris, John A. (deceased) 173 

Harrison, Rev. R., M. A., Toronto : , .! 

Harrison, Wm. Spencer, M.D., C.M., Brantford 14.") 

1 1 urgrove, Joseph , Mang. Mfg. Co., Hair il ton ... I .t 

Harley, James, Barrister, Brantford 19 

Harrington, Andrew J., M.D., M.R.C.S., Toronto 1 II 

Hawke, Benjamin E., M.D., Stratford 2H9 

1 1 ay, Stephen M., M. D., Toronto 48 

Heighington, Joseph, Barrister, Toronto 98 

llcllmuth College, London 

Henderson, Ki-\ . ( 1. \V., Methodist, London . (It 


IM 

ll.nderson, &lt;;. II., L.D.S., Elora. . 

ll-nderon, Thos., I. I &gt; S . Toronto. . 

Henry, Robt.. -urer, Brantford. |, ; 

Hillary, Robt. W., MR, Aurora .,,,., 

Holt, James B., Merchant, Brantford... 

1 1. .-if, \VnltiT. N., Bursar, I .runtford .,.,,, 

Hotchkiss, Charles S., Manufacturer, Brentford. .,; &gt; 

HOOMT. K . F.inn.-r. Selkirk 

Howard, A. McLean, Div Court Clerk, Toronto 

Howard, Rev. James Scott, M A., St. .Matthew s Ch., Toronto 87 

H. .well, Rev. J. K., M.A., Methodist, Cod-rich 

Rowland, Sir Win. P., C.B . K ( M , , Toronto , , 

Hughes, James L., Inspector of Schools, Toronto. 80 

Hu^hson, A. A , Barrister, Orangeville 3^0 

, K. H . Photographer, Ingersoll lt , ( 

Hunter, Rev. John E., Evangelist, St. Thomas 

Hunter, Rev. \V. Armstrong M.A , Presbyterian I ,7 

Hunter, Rev. Win. J., D.I)., Methodist, Montreal, ijue !;,; 

Hunter, D. II., 11 A., Principal Col. Inst., Woodstock. l.i;i 

Husband, Arthur Jas., Dentist, Toronto i;.. 

Husl^and, Thos. Hamilton, Dentist, Hamilton 71 

Husband, Roht. Jas., L.I) S, Hamilton 

Huston, Wm. II . M.A., College Principal, Woodstock ;; L &gt;o 

Hutchison, Matthew, Mill-r, (Joderich 1C9 

Ingles, Rev. Chas. L, M. A., Toronto 03 

Iniics, Very Rev. 0. \l , Dean of Huron, Lon l.,n i;, ( ; 

Jackson, Thos. W., Methodist, Heamsv ille ..,,7 

Jaffray, Robt, J.I ., Toronto I -,.; 

.1 .lines. Rev. John, D. I).. Presbyterian, NValkertifr. . 

Johnson, Rev. T. S., Baptist, Brantford 

.lolniston. Rev. Hugh, M.A., I). I)., Methodist, Toronto |t;-J 

Johnston, Rev. Gabriel, B.D., Anglican, Welland )*: 

JOIIM, S. J., Judge, Biantford l.-,;i 

Jons, John Butler, Manufacturer, N ills. 

Rev. John, Methodist, Dundas . . II 

Keay, Rev. James A., Baptist, Dundas Io7 

Kelly, M. J., M.D.. I.Li:, I. P. Schools, Brantford . 41 | 

Kennedy, Geo., M.A., LI, D., Barrister. Toronto 

Kennedy, Warring, Merchant, Toronto .j J r, 

Kennedy, Rev. Jas. H , Methodist, Glanford 

Kenney, Rev. (J. II., Metlnxlist. Minesing . -ill 

K err, . I. K., Q.C., Toronto. 

Killmer, Frederick. D.D.S., I. l&gt; aharines. 


INDEX. 495 


Kilroy, Rev. E. B., D.D., Catholic, Stratford 333 

King, John S., M.D., Toronto 109 

Kingsmill, John J., M.A., D.C.L., Judge, Walkerton 361 

Knowles, W. J., Merchant, Brantford -427 

Kortright, Sir 0. H., K.G.M.G., Gentleman, Barrie : &gt;2i 

Koyl, Rev. E. H., M.A., Methodist, Niagara Falls 152 

Krupp, Rev. Samuel, Evangelical, Tavistock 236 

Lackner, H. G., M.D., Berlin 455 

Lacourse, A., Judge, Waterloo 323 

Laing, F. H., Druggist, Windsor 281 

Laing, Rev. John, D.D., Presbyterian, Dundas 440 

L-vnceley, Rev. E. B., London . 2i 

Lanceley, Rev. John E., Toronto 55 

Laurier, Hon. Wilfred, B.C.L, A. C., P.C., M.P 9 

Lawrence, Rev. Geo., Methodist, Ingersoll 444 

Laycock, Rev. John, Methodist, Hamilton . !-* 

Lazier, S. F., Q.C., Hamilton 39 

Lee, John, Agriculturist, Highgate -41 

Leitch, Rev. M. L., Presbyterian, Stratford 217 

Leitch, John A., Insurance, Brantford 216 

Lennon, Rev. P., Catholic, Brantford 226 

Leys, John, Q.C., Toronto T. i 

Linscott, Rev. T. S., Publisher, Brantford 1 . ! 1 

Little, R. A., B.A., Classical Master, London 413 

Logan, Robert, Banker, Seaforth "&gt;"&gt;"&gt; 

Long, W. D , Wool Merchant, Hamilton 171 

Lowrey, David, M.D., Brantford 1-1- 

Lowell, Wm., Gentleman, Niagara Falls S : &lt;\(&lt; 

Lowell, James A., Gentleman, Niagara Falls S., 317 

Lyle, Rev. Samuel, B.D., Presbyterian, Hamilton _&gt;OS 

Lyon, J. \V., Publisher, Guelph 231 &gt; 

Miicdouald, Sir John A., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D 7 

Macdonald, James A , Barrister, Toronto 1 i 

Macfadden, James, County Court Clerk, Stratford JM&gt; 

Mackay, Charles, M.D., C.M., Seaforth 877 

Mackenzie, Hon. Alex., M.P., Toronto 3S! 

Maclaren, John J , D.C.L., LL.D., Q.C., Toronto 52 

Macqueen, Judge, Woodstock 1 i 1 

Macqueen, Fred. W., Div. Court Clerk, Woodstock If!;. 

Magill, Wm., Educationist, Toronto 

Magrath, Rev. W. M , Anglican, Barrie 1 7"&gt; 

Maloney, Rev. R. D., Catholic, Markdale 31 ! 

Manning, Alexander, Bank President - 1 - 


!M 

II . I: A . 1.1, I: . c M-, Toronto.. 

tferohwt, 

V trahd IV i Men-hunt. London 

liartin, John, Solicitor, Toronto . 

M,r T ,i,. Hun. ,. M h, Rrantford. 

Q, H., 8&lt; lYea-urer, London 
thewg, Will.u, . i,,,,, V &gt; (JQ) Top 

M l; A -I- l ; Principftl Col. Inst., Stratford 
MwdMuit, K. \V., MA, principal Collegiate I .don 

Meredith, l-:. Q.O, London." , 

Me.edith. W. K, M P.P, leader of Opposition^ Toronto 
Meredith, H..n. k. M.. Justice, Toronto , 
M.Tntt. Thomas li . I ;,-url/-ina mrines 

r, H. VV. I \Vin K h : i.M. 

Mi l llfiiM &lt;, |i|&gt; , PratbTterira, Klora . 

Miln.-r, I! /, .M I.. Tor- I 
Millanl, John II. CiilMm-t .M^iker, Newmarket. . . . ", v , 

Mill. i .ucl.T. In.: 1 , -i taker, Toronto 

Miller, \V. Whit.-, l ,,.st ortaije la Prairie, 

.. H.I,. M A. Principal 1 1 iimn ( ,,]],-,. I,.,,,,!,,,! . i : 

MUllnmn, Thomu, M.H.. M.k.cs.. L.R.G.P., P.O nto! 

Mill- i--r, Barrister, Toronto 

Mills, (Jror-.- Cordon, I! A., Barrister, Toroi, 
Mills, Jo],,,. L D.S., Brantford 

Millwanl. \\. K , M !&gt;.. OrimAv. . , -, 

Mn. l,.-;i. Bar. Oea A . I: A . M -th-.-l, &gt; 

ridge, Ber. c II., M.A., h.H., Ajwliowi, Toronto 

MOI.S,., M.irsena, Undertaker, Niagara Falls South .,,,; 

M..r&gt;oii, Ki-.-&lt;l.-ri,-k M.. ll-irri&gt;t.-r, Toronto.. 
Morton, l{.-\ .1 , ( ..n-r.^Mtioiml, Hiunilton 
Morton, U.-v. John J . Anxlic-an. Port Colbon.&lt;- 

, Iti-v. T. A , M.-th&lt;.-li.st, Hamilton 

Moor.-, John 11., Merchant, Hamilton 

Mow.it, Hon. Oliver, O..C, M.1M ., LLD.. Toronto... ]| 

Mowt.r.iy, Thomas, Sculptor, Toronto 

MOV.T. i . K \V., MA, K&lt;litorand Publish.-r. P.-rhn 

Murdoch, Win. (J, orj, p, Barrister, Toronto.. 1 ( 

Mussen, Rev. K. II . MA, Anglican, Auror i 

M.-Kriil.-, H. C., Architect, London 

UoCabe, Wm., LL.I!., Life Insurance Director, Toronto. .. 

M. ( ann, \ ,-ry Rev. Jos. J., St. Mich i.-dral, Toronto. . 

M &lt; Mary, John, Manufacturer, London. In,, 

M. &lt; l.-ne^ han. A R . Post Master, Woodstock ... HI 

M - rimmon, Neil. Bairister, Toronto 

M I &gt;onai. h, Andrew Jog., Dentist, Ti&gt;nnio 

M.-1 ..nal.l. ElV. A. !&gt;., l |. ,t,,rth 

M. -Donald. Rol*-rt, M.D. 1 1 ajersville 

M. Dougall, Joseph K, Judge, Toronto ]..| 

M I ougall, liev. John, Metluxlist, M,,rl.-\. N U ] .. ~ t | 

M.i:,: ,.,.. K. . .1 .1, atholic, Port Oolt 

M. livay, Kev. f. P . Hamiltrm .J[ | 

Mi -Cl.i.-han. ( apt. H. J.. P.rantford ~, tll ; 

M, (ire-^or. Rev. A. K . P. ! 

M -l M A . Pi, D, Pi 

M, Kay, R--v W. A . P. A , Pr, -i,\ (,-,,;, n. Woodstock 

M.-k .;.!,. M i&gt; p. [ngersoll , , , 

M Kay, &gt; ister, Woodstock 

M -l P. A . Ml . T..ronto. . 


INDEX. P. 7 


McKee, Rev. Thomas, I. P. S. Barrie 250 

McKinnon, L. E., Merchant, St. Catharines M7."&gt; 

McLaughlin, Richard, G., L.D.S., D.D.S., Toronto 56 

McLeod, Win., Merchant, Georgetown v -MUt 

McMurchie, Alexander, Manufacturer, Clinton -7 I 

M, Mullen, Rev. W. T., D.D., Presbyterian, Woodstock 332 

McNee, Archibald, Editor, Windsor 334 

McPhillips, Patrick, Barrister, London 171 

Neil, Wm., Gentleman, Flesherton 277 

Nelles, Robt. L., G. T. R. Freight Agt., Toronto 110 

Norman, Addison, Medical Electrician, Toronto 488 

C AC -^ ort - n n raves i R ev - G. R., Editor, Ingersoll 419 

Nugent, Rev. F. E., Methodist, Mitchell 301 

Oakley, John Wesley, L.D.S., D.D.S., Toronto 82 

Odgen, Wm. W., M.B., M.D., {Toronto 132 

Odgen, Albert, Barrister, Toronto . 11 

Oldham, Edmund, M.D., Chatsworth, 364 

O Reilly, Chas., M.D., C.M.. Supt. T. G. H., Toronto 45 

Palling, J. F., M.D., Barrie 428 

Panton, Rev. E W., Presbyterian 235 

Parke, E. J., Q.C., Police Magistrate, London 483 

Parker, Thos. H., Gentleman, Woodstock 390 

Parker, Samuel G ., M.B., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Toronto 99 

Patterson, Wm., M. P., Manufacturer, Brantford 2.".S 

Patterson, Rev. E., M. A., Rural Dean, Stratford 315 

Patterson, George E., Engraver, Toronto &gt;- 1 

Pattison, Geo. E , Manufacturer, St. Catharines 151 

Pattullo, Andrew, Editor, Woodstock .112 

Pearson, Wm. H., Mangr. Con. Gas. Co., Toronto 189 

Pearson, Nathaniel, L D.S., Toronto 106 

Peer, James Nelson, Grain Mcht., Toronto 191 

Percival, Rev. Wm. Webb, M. A., Presbyterian, Richmond Hill 154 

Philp, Rev. Joseph, B.D , Methodist, London 338 

Philip, D. Leslie, M.D., Brantford 16 

Pomeroy, Rev. Wm., Methodist, Florence 219 

Porter, W. H., L.D.S., Bradford : ,2ii 

Post, Albert A., Architect, Toronto 335 

Potts, Rev. John, D.D., Methodist, Toronto :is;i 

Powell.N. Albert, M.D., Toronto 150 

Quinn, James, J.P., Gentleman, Orillia i L 2 

Rit.lford, J. A., O.S.A., Architect, Toronto 1 66 

Ralston, Albert J., Broker, Hamilton 304 

Rastrick, F. J., Architect, Hamilton 2 ."&gt;. ! 

Raymond, William G., Music Emporium, Brantford 120 

Rea, James, M.D., Toronto (i .i 

Read, Samuel George, Mayor, Brantford 

Redfern, J. W., Merchant, Owen Sound .".2r. 

Reid, R., Collector of Customs, London 1 7 7 

Reynolds, K. R., Hamster, Toronto - . Mil 

Reynolds, Rev. John, Methodist, Highgatc, &lt; &gt;nt 

Richards, Charles, Merchant, Caledonia h , 1 

Richards, Henry, Merchant, Toronto 

Richards, Henry, Manufacturer, Bothwell : 1 :1 


INDIA 

Clinton, Out 

1 . &lt;;.. LD.a, D.D.8., Brampton .V, ~ { 

ronto 

rtaon, \\ m. N , \I l&gt; . Stratford , ;, ; 

pli. Div. Court Clerk, Bnintfonl I,., 

Itoliinson, Charles, M D., I .ramjiton . . - is | 

., Barrister, Aurora I ._.,, 

i.vm, Win A., Express Agent, Brantford lu; 

Roche, Francis J., M A., Barrister, Toronto \--_&gt; 

A . M.. MA , 1 ,, O.uerian. Ix&gt;nclon |ni) 

Ron* ,nt, Toronto 

-, &lt; h is. K., retired, Niagara Fulls South 

-S Charles II., Police Magistrate, Banie &lt;, I 

, A . I: L, M.D., Carrie . 2 18 

Ross, A. Milton, MA.. Ml), F.F.S.L., Author, Toronto . 

. Wm. All.ert, M,D, LRO I .. Murrie. j , ( 

Ross, Hon. (J. \V.. I.I, I: , M.P.P., Min. Education, Toronto 1C,:! 

Roswell, John \V., I:. A , llarrister, Toronto 

Rotherhiini House (I &gt;r. Walker s Hospital), Toronto . \\- 

M D., 0.1L, Toronto 1 1.-, 

idys, Rev. Francis Wm., D.D., Archdeacon, Chatlrun _&gt; j; 

Sanderson, Rev. G., D. I" ., M.thodist, London 

ford, Hon. Wm. K., Senator, Hamilton 71 

Savn. .1 W , Methodist, Bond Head. 

Schweiiiliinaiiii, F. W.. Hanker, I &gt;rayton 

M . Newmarket J-x 

Scott, HoU-rt ( ., Miller, llighgate |l,| 

M.-thodist, West Lome ;,i; 

. .las . (;.. M.D , Seaforth 

Mex. Y., HA.. M I)., Toronto. . 

\\ !n.. M I", Woodstock ............... :i v_&gt; 

Shaw. Wm. H., Business College, Stratford 

Sheai I i ;., I , A., Hamilton 

Sher WIK id. Wm A , Artist, Toronto 

- Q.OL, .lud^e. Hamilton 

Sinieiiton, Arthur, Fanner, Black heath U;{ 

.i\toii. Manufacturer, Brantford j I I 

Smith, Duncan, M.li, Finj^al 

Smith, Hon. Frank. Senator, Toronto ;S-_&gt;1 

Smith, i too. Henri. 1! A , Solicitor, Toronto. . 70 

Smith, Pn.f. (Joldwin, M A , I.I.D., D.C.L., Toronto ,. 87 

Smith, (Jeori;i-, MA. BunitW, Woodstock -. -JIIH 

Smith, Rev. ,1. W. 1 ., Anglican, London. 

Smith, John C., Hanker. Seaforth i;i 1 

Smith, Larratt William, Q.C., D.C.L., Toronto 

;rove, Chai \ , L.D.8., Toronto 

Sniii. ! i. \\ . Methodist, Ingersoll 401 

Snider. W K ist, Toronto 

Souch, James E, Banker, Newmarket.... . ]S1 

Sparrow, Male.jlm. W., Dentist, Toronto , ]r,7 

Spence, Adam, Carriage Builder, Brantford .... 1 -ji; 

Spencci. !; i P. L., Anglican, Thorold... 

Spetz, Rev. TheoUld, D.D., O.B., Catholic, Bvlin 

iel, p. ( . In-; ri ........ 

Stalker, Malcolm. M D , Walkerton. .. . 

i.iirii llonoraVjle Frederick Arthur, Gov. Gen. Canada, Frontispiece. _ 

Stanley, Joseph, Merchant, Brantford till 

k, Robert, Chemist, Hamilton ... 87 


INDEX. 499 

Staebler, .1 . M.. Mayor, Berlin 1 36 

Steele, Michael, M.D., Tavistock 

Stepbenson, Geo. H., Barrister, Toronto 108 

Stevens, Jas. Div. Court Clerk, Ingersoll 

Stewart, Rev. A., M.A., English Church, Orillia 427 

Stewart, J. G., V.S., Brantford 

Stilwell, Chas. Franklin, Manufacturer, Hamilton 93 

Stinson, T. H., Solicitor, Hamilton 159 

Storm, W. G., Architect, Toronto 423 

Stratford, John H., Gentleman, Brantford 294 

Stratford, Joseph E. H., Gentleman, Brantford 295 

Stuart, Wm. T., M.D., Toronto 46 

Sutherland, Rev. R. G., M.A., Canon, Hamilton 325 

Sweatmiin. Right Rev. A., D.D., D.C.L., Bishop, Toronto 14 

Sweet, Edmund, LL.B., Barrister, Brantford 81 

Tait, Joseph, M.P.P., Toronto 210 

Tapscott, Rev. W. T., Baptist, Woodstock 343 

Taylor, Rev. David H., Methodist; Fonthill 199 

Teeple, Rev. Wm. M., Methodist, Troy 268 

Thomson, Geo., Merchant, Toronto 487 

Thomson, S. M . Clothier, Brantford 62 

Thomas, Rev. B. I)., D.D., Baptist, Toronto 

Thompson, Wm., Lumber Merchant, Orillia 241 

Tiernan, Rev. Father M. J., Catholic, London 197 

Tillson, Edwin D., Manufacturer, Tilsonburg 110 

Tolmie, Rev. J. Craig, B.A., Brantford 54 

Tom, John Elgin, I.P.S., Goderich 300 

Toms, Isaac F., Judge, Goderich 404 

Totten. Warren, Q.C., Barrister, Woodstock, 373 

To veil, Rev. Isaac, Methodist, Hamilton 246 

Treadgold, Manton, Mayor, Brampton 167 

Treble, S. G., Merchant, Hamilton 204 

Turnbull, Rev. T. Logan, Presbyterian, Oneida 1! 2 

I re, P. J., P. L.S., Civil Engineer, Woodstock 441 

Van Allan, L&gt;. R., Manufacturer, Chatham 

Van Egmond, L. G., Manufacturer, Seaforth 306 

Van Norman, Geo. R., Q.C., Brantford 4S. . 

Vanstone, A. L., Merchant, Brantford 433 

\ an&lt;rhaii. John J., Chief of Police, Brantford 88 

Veit. Rev. K.. Lutheran, Tavistock 224 

Vick, John Henjamin, Contractor, Toronto 7ti 

Vickers, John J., Gentleman, Toronto 2 . 1 7 

Vidal, Henri B., Major, Toronto 313 

Vea.len, Ilex. Thomas, B.A., Methodist, Cathead, 152 

Wade, Henry, Retired Merchant, Brantford 180 

Wagner, Charles P., Architect, Toronto 249 

Walker, Wm. F., M.A., LLK. i t ) C., Barrister, Hamilton 

Walker, Rev. Robert, Methodist, Walkerton 2 V.i 

Walker, Hoi ford, M.D., Private Hospital, Toronto I It) 

Walsh, W. J., Plumber, Hamilton 

Walsh, Right Rev. John, Archbishop, Toronto 

Wallace, Rev. Robert, Presbyterian, Toronto . 168 

Waterous, Sr., Chas. H., Waterous Engine Works C&lt;&gt;.,l &gt;iantiord 79 

Waters, Rev. David, D.D., LL.D., Newark, N..I " 472 


50&lt;&gt; INI 

Kins, Thos. (. ., Merchant, Hamilton... 
Watson, James A . M l&gt; , Toronto ... 
W.,tson, Albert I , M I , 1. I; ( } , Toronto!." 

, A . Manufacturer, Woodstock 
: .Jr.. W.ll.an,, I: A. l.l. p, . sh-riff. Br.oi 
\\eatherston, .I,,hn iK I: Man.^.-,-.. Hamilton 
W,.Ut,- r . A K. D.D.a, M.S., Toronto ...... 

Methodist, Northtit-1,1 (Vntr,- 
W - |lii "o . W *-ar,- Work.-. 1 ..... 

Welch, Arthur Henry, J.-weller, Ton 
ford, A B. G., Mi:. \Voodstoc-k.... 

n ...... , Omtholio, &lt;;,,l ( . r ich ............ 


, ............ 

Wwtwvelt, .1. \v . Prinoipd BMU i :,.... . 

u - ik,-, A 0. E*hoto) k. . 


. . 

Whit,-. John, M.-rvhant. \\,H,,K 
w "i wph, Retired 


r \i 


. . 

Wid, I;. . Jowph, M A . I. I.. , Coronto 

N lk l.i.l:., 

WUkuuoo, Jonathan, K.litor, St. Thomas ....... 

Wilkinson. I;,.. .l,,h,. M., |-,.\ , Method 
\\illiani8, Chas. .1., ManutactUM,. Hainiltciu ... 
Willia,,,,. .1 A . M.I).. , 
Willianuon, 1; .M,.tho,li,t. i lakvill,- 

Wl11 " .-unston, LD.a, D.DJ8., Ml -. Toronto 

- r Daniel, LL.D., F.B.8.E., Toronto 

n, John D., M.It, C.M., Ix)ndon 

i, Hu-h M,.-K,.n/i,., Q.O., lirantford.. 

, I I . Exporter, &gt;,-aforth 
Winsk.-!, W. K.. Ml.. M B., M.R.C.8., Bntntford 

Wi throw, W. ]|.. D.D., K,l ,,to 


Wooda, Jiim.-s P., Q.C., Judge, Stratfonl 
Woods, Walter, Manufacturer, Hamilton 


\\...ls worth, H.-v. U. U AMI,, ,|, 

\\oodsworth, Rev. James, M&lt;-th...li-t. Manitoba... 
City Clerk, I .rantford 


Ivntt, Thomas, I ,,!,,,- Ma-, 
Worr.-ll, John Austin M.A. li.C.L., Q C. I Toronto. 

\\n-lit, K.-v. P. l:|&gt;. l r,--l,yt,-rian, Portage la ttrairi.-. M ,, 

--. Wm. Archibald, M.It. (. i; r. Toronto,